A fully featured and fast WordPress Website is bound to become a successful website but it should also succeed over the parameters of safety of the websites. Now in the time of increasing threats from hacking attempts, safety and security of the websites have become even more important. It is not difficult to implement the safety measures around your WordPress website. Here we are giving you steps about how to secure your WordPress Website:-

• Delete All the unwanted Plugins or Extensions

Find out which are the plugins which are useless and which are not maintained by the developers. We recommend not to install any plugin which is not maintained by developers for last 2 years. You can check these details on the WordPress.com site. If it says the plugin is not updated by developers for over 2 years then delete it. Developers do WordPress plugin development and updation to make their plugin secure so that hackers don’t attack them. If these plugins or extensions are not maintained by their developers, then the hacker can find some way to make your site vulnerable and can compromise your website security.

• Back up your WordPress Website

Making backup of your WordPress website is important if anything goes wrong as in such a situation you can restore the stable version of the website if needed. Sometimes websites get corrupted or compromised. If you have a backup plan then you can handle these situations easily. All the hosting providers provide the backup feature or else you can download a plugin for backup.

• Update everything on your WordPress Website

You should update everything on your WordPress website. While doing WordPress website development, developers take care of these updations.

To update properly the plugins, themes and extensions follow these steps:-

• • • Update all the plugins

    • Update the WordPress theme

    • Update all the core installations

You should follow this step carefully as to avoid any hacking attempt on your WordPress website. If there is any other application like joomla, Drupal or any other application you should update them also along with their extensions and plugins.

If you have a custom WordPress theme and you are not able to update it then you can hire a WordPress developer to accoplish this task. It is a necessary step. You should configure for automatic updates to ensure regular updates. In order to auto update WordPress core files you can copy paste these codes in wp-config.php files :

define( 'WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE', true );

→ For the plugins, use:

add_filter( 'auto_update_plugin', '__return_true' );

→ For Themes, use:

add_filter( 'auto_update_theme', '__return_true' );

• Delete the outdated WordPress Directories

You should delete all the old and outdated directories as when you don’t maintain your old directories, the hackers may find some vulnerabilities and try to compromise your WordPress website. If you want to know how many directories left in your WordPress website, you have to login into your website by FTP. You can also ask from your hosting provider for these details. If you have deleted your old directories then there will be no risk of such hacking attempts.

• Install a WordPress Security Plugin

It is very easy to install a WordPress security plugin. Here we are giving you three popular WordPress security plugins.

• • • Wordfence Security

    • iThemes Security

    • Sucuri Security

• Secure your CPanel and WordPress Admin Accounts by deleting unwanted accounts

If you want to secure WordPress website admin account then first you have to Sign into your WordPress website and go to Users > All Users > Select “Administrator”. Now check that you know all the accounts. If you find some unknown account then it means your website has been hacked. Delete unknown account and also contact a security expert. Make your admin password strong.

Prevention is always better than cure hence you should be very careful while making your WordPress website secure and safe. If you will follow all the above steps to make your WordPress website secure then you don’t have to face a situation in which your website will be compromised and no hacker will be able to breach into your website security. As your business depends on how well and efficiently your WordPress website is running hence making your website foolproof is an important step to expand your business.