Internet Business Guide » protection http://www.hochstadt.com For First-Class Progress Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:19:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Protecting Your WordPress Blog http://www.hochstadt.com/protecting-your-wordpress-blog http://www.hochstadt.com/protecting-your-wordpress-blog#comments Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:24:40 +0000 Marcus Hochstadt http://www.hochstadt.com/?p=23 Turnip has a great post about protecting your WordPress blog and the entire installation, so to speak. It’s a excellent addition to a post by Matt Cutts I read earlier this year giving 3 tips on protecting your [...]]]> Turnip has a great post about protecting your WordPress blog and the entire installation, so to speak. It’s a excellent addition to a post by Matt Cutts I read earlier this year giving 3 tips on protecting your WordPress installation.

To add something to this, what I personally also use is a WordPress plugin called Login LockDown by Michael VanDeMar. It may be similar to creating a particular .htaccess file discussed on the above blogs but may be easier to create using this plugin.

Besides this, I strongly encourage everyone to upgrade to the newest WordPress version whenever available (currently v2.5) so you close old security leaks and ban attackers.

—Marcus Hochstadt

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