Category: WordPress Security Tutorials & Tips

As an owner  or contributor to a few WordPress sites you are subscribed to an overwhelming number of online services and websites. And even though you agree with the above statement, it is very difficult for you to follow this security best practice, even though you enforce strong WordPress password policies on your sites.

There are plenty of CMS solutions you can choose from. Each one of them has its pros and cons. In an ideal world there is a way to overcome all the issues you have with your CMS. However as such is not always possible, and sometimes it is simply easier to migrate to a new CMS.

It is impossible to ignore security when it comes to managing WordPress sites and blogs. In fact many business site administrators choose a secure WordPress web host for their sites. On top of that, they install a WordPress firewall plugin or service, and keep a log of what is happening one their site with a comprehensive WordPress activity log plugin.

WordPress security can be an intimidating subject to those who are new to WordPress, and to having a website. However, with compliance and standards such as the OWASP Top 10 list business can easily get started with WordPress security. This article explains what is the OWASP Top 10 list. It also explains how WordPress site administrators can have an Owasp Top 10 compliant WordPress website.

If you manage a WordPress website, you surely need to give temporary access to someone so they can fix a problem or do some work on your website. Though there is a problem – the process of creating and managing temporary users can become cumbersome and can also lead to security issues.

There are several benefits to keeping a record of everything that is happening on your website in a WordPress audit log. As seen in this example, you can configure email alert so you are alerted of any suspicious user behaviour at an early stage, allowing you to thwart any possible hacker attacks before any damage is done on your WordPress website and multisite network.

A WordPress security tutorial that explains how and why you should hide your WordPress usernames to improve the security of your WordPress blogs and websites.

The WordPress administrator user account is the most targeted account on a WordPress installation. Read this article to learn what you can do to tighten the security of your WordPress administrator user account and how to keep it secure.

This security article explains why you should change your WordPress Administrator ID to improve the security of your WordPress blogs and sites. It also explains how to change the WordPress administrator ID so malicious hackers cannot target the WordPress administrator account.

This document explains how to grant remote access to a WordPress or any other MySQL database. Remote access might be needed if you need to extract or read data from the WordPress database from a remote location, for example to read the WordPress security alerts generated by WP Activity Log plugin and store them in a centralized logging and monitoring system.