When your WordPress site is hacked, you can lose your search engine rankings, expose your readers to viruses, have your reputation tarnished due to redirects to porn or other bad neighborhood websites, and worst lose your entire site data. To avoid site hack issue you can secure your website using below steps : 1)Keep WordPress up-to-date you should always keep up to date with the latest version of WordPress. Older versions of WordPress are not maintained with security updates. 2) Delete any plugins or themes you are not using First of all, make sure your plugins/themes are always updated. Also, If you have old themes and plugins that you’re not using anymore then delete it from the system. 3) Vulnerabilities on Your Computer Make sure the computers you use are free of spyware, malware, and virus infections.Always keep your operating system and the software on it, especially your web browser, up to date to protect you from security vulnerabilities 4) Limiting access/Protect your WordPress Admin Area It is important to restrict the access to your WordPress admin area only to people that actually need access to it. you can deny wp-admin access to everyone but yourself via an .htaccess file. add the below code in .htaccess file <pre># Block access to wp-admin. order deny,allow allow from x.x.x.x deny from all</pre> ================= replacing x.x.x.x with your IP address. 5) Install security plugin on your website There are to many security plugins available for wordpress. e.g Wordfence Security, BulletProof Security Please refer below URL for more information http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress Looking for WordPress Hosting : Secured WordPress Hosting
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