Hardening WordPress with htaccess

This article will discuss some security techniques to better harden and secure your WordPress blog; this is especially effective in a hosted environment. Let me start by saying this guide may not be for everyone, and chances are that it may break some third party plugins and templates. It is not all doom and gloom; if you are able to use this guide it will significantly increase the security of your blog. It will prevent many attacks including brute force attacks, plugin enumeration, directory listings, sensitive information... [Read the full story]

Improving Wordpress Security In Easy Steps

Whilst Wordpress is a great publishing tool it does have it’s challenges and one of my greatest concerns is always security. The Wordpress team of developers do a good job of releasing regular fixes but as always hackers inevitably find loopholes and exploits in each new version. Left in its default state Wordpress can prove particularly vulnerable so here is a list of simply steps you can make to ensure your Wordpress blog or website is hacker proof. Delete the Wordpress version information that appears in the header... [Read the full story]