For security reasons it’s important to make sure that people cannot navigate your /plugins/ directory. Depending on how your server is set up, your directories may be listed for all to see when visiting those URL’s. You can check on your site by visiting your plugins folder: http://yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins/ Quick Fix: Add a blank index.html file [...]
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Worried about someone hacking your WordPress site? Here’s one way to make it just a little bit more secure. This little snippet restricts access to your /wp-admin/ directory to only the IP address that you specify, which puts your admin dashboard URLs securely in your control. AuthUserFile /dev/null AuthGroupFile /dev/null AuthName "Access Control" AuthType Basic [...]
If you’re responsible for a WordPress site then you need to know how to keep it secure. You cannot afford to leave your product and investment unprotected. Most of these strategies will take you under two minutes to implement but can save you many hours of agonizing over how to clean up a mess created [...]
