10 WordPress Tips to Make Your Website Highly Secure

Elyssa & Adelina are close friends. Both are entrepreneurs living in Perth. Today, both have decided to spend some moments together. They have selected a restaurant near the beach.

Suddenly Adelina falls into deep anxiety after reading a notification on her smartphone. She told Elyssa about a security warning for her WordPress website. She immediately came in contact with her WordPress developer and requested him to tackle the matter at his end.

Elyssa was a bit more tech-savvy than Adelina. So, she made WordPress security the main topic of their talk. Elyssa has given a couple of WordPress tips to make Adelina’s website highly secure. Let’s also learn something out of that talk between two friends.

Tip #1 – Deal with WordPress Updates Regularly.

First of all, Elyssa mentioned why Adelina has to be worried more about WordPress security.

She pointed her to a universal fact, “WordPress shares almost 40% of websites on the web. So, your WordPress website always becomes the soft target of bad intended people and experiences the various security threats.”

She was quite right and for the same reason, the WordPress platform releases major to minor updates more frequently than other CMS platforms.

Whenever core code or main resources get an update, rests have to follow it to remain compatible. That’s why WordPress themes and plugins also release frequent updates.

If webmasters or website owners are not following those frequent updates, the chances of bugs and vulnerability remain high.

Adelina promptly responded to this tip and asked her a critical question. She asked, “I remain busy with my business so how can I spare time now & then to follow those updates?”

Elyssa quickly replied, “You can buy a WordPress support & maintenance plan from WP Agents like a dependable agency.”

Tip #2 – Be Particular on Taking WordPress Backups Regularly.

Now, Elyssa asked, “Adelina suppose, your website has been crashed or hacked during your peak earning period and you lost everything, what will you do?”

“I use the UpdraftPlus WordPress plugin to take automatic backup,” Adelina replied. “That is nice, but do you know how to restore that backup?” Elyssa asked Adelina and she was mute.

“It is a better way to store your updates one more than one place like online cloud storage besides your local computer/laptop,” Elyssa said with confidence. Elyssa added, “The team at WP-Agents takes responsibility for backing up the websites of their clientele and restore it safely & quickly whenever something unfortunate happens.”

Tip #3 – Limit Login Attempts & Regularly Change Passwords of WordPress Website.

The next tip was to take important precautionary steps. “We almost know that hackers always try to access website code or backend through login. If you have imposed a limit on login attempts, they hardly guess your password or use software to crack it.

Moreover, you need to keep your login credentials strong and tough to guess. This way you are closing the first door for hackers. Of course, the use of captcha is one more step to strengthen the security.” Elyssa said.

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