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How to Ensure Your WordPress Blog is Safe and Secure

WordPress is among the most popular platforms for blogs now and becoming more and more popular day by day. The platform is...

Written by Deepanshu Gahlaut · 2 min read >

WordPress is among the most popular platforms for blogs now and becoming more and more popular day by day. The platform is regarded for its ease of use and its ability to support many different styles of blogs.

If you have your personal blog or website on WordPress and use it regularly for connecting with your audience, then your blog or website is vital to your growth as a professional or as an individual. This popularity can make WordPress blogs also a target for hackers who want to use your website as a bot to make a terrible income or simply as a target to deface for fun.

You absolutely do not want this sort of thing to happen because it is difficult (if not impossible) to recover from.

Here are a few tips that will help protect your WordPress blog from hackers and other cyber criminals who want to hijack your awesome blog:

1.   Keep Your Email Secure:

Your email address is the key to your WordPress account, and therefore, any and all blogs that you have are directly connected to it. If your email account becomes compromised, then your WordPress account is as good as compromised as well. This means that you need to take every precaution to protect it.

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You are going to maximize the security of the password for your email (and your WordPress account), and if it isn’t too much of an inconvenience, try to make a separate email account that only deals with your blogging activities. This way everything is more easily traced and organized, and if you make a mistake with your personal account, your blog will still be safe.

2.   Use a VPN if Blogging in Public

Blogging on the go has great advantages, such as relevancy to writing about a time-sensitive subject, writing from a different location, and being able to respond to any problems or comments from anywhere with an internet connection. That being said, there are hackers who will steal that password to your WordPress account over public Wi-Fi and then use that to get into your site. This is unacceptable.

Therefore, any blogger on the go should use a VPN (Virtual Private Network), regardless of whether they are using a laptop or smartphone. A VPN is a service that will connect the user’s device to an offsite secure server.

The connection will be encrypted, so as opposed to an open network, no one will be able to see anything you send over the internet (most importantly your username and password to your WordPress account). Once you have an opportunity, you should look for a VPN to keep your blog safe because there are many to choose from.

3.   Have a Strong Design

A quick tip is to take a look at the design or theme of your WordPress site and see what kind of template and organization you have going on. Ask if it portrays safety of any sort, or whether the blogger looks as if they put a lot of effort into it.

While, in reality, the style and organization of a website mean little to its security, the psychological effect is still there, and you should use it to your advantage.

4.   Backup Everything

Should the worst occur and your website be infiltrated or compromised, you do not want to lose all the work you have done over the months or even years you’ve had your blog. Make sure that you have a couple of backups of everything on both physical media and a cloud storage service and that you update each of them on a regular basis.

With these considerations, hope that you will never have to deal with a security attack on your blog. Thank you for reading.

Written by Deepanshu Gahlaut
I write on SEO, content marketing, latest technologies, and social media. You can find me online, or at home watching sci-fi movies, listening songs, or sleeping. In addition, my latest obsession is creating, collecting and organizing visual content on my new blog - Infopixi, to help bloggers, marketers, and businesses. Profile

2 Replies to “How to Ensure Your WordPress Blog is Safe and Secure”

  1. Great post, Emails stored on some third party servers are not secure always. Binfer on the other hand bypasses cloud storage servers and make itvery safe to send and secure emails for WordPress.

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