Secure your admin environment in WordPress
Experienced WordPress users may already know a lot about this but the security of your admin environment is obviously very important.If you don't secure your admin area then malicious users can access it and change almost anything.In this blog post we are going to cover how to best secure your admin environment on your WordPress hosting.
Some tips
To start at the beginning we will start with the installation because it is important that you use a strong password.This applies to both your database admin account and your WordPress admin account, because if the malicious user gets into your database then he has the ability to change the password of the WordPress admin user.For a strong password you can of course use our random password generator, this way you will have a password that is extra hard to crack.Our password generator will make sure that your passwords contain capital letters, small letters, numbers and special characters to make your password as strong as possible.
Another thing to watch out for is that you do not use Nulled templates, these are premium templates offered for free by various websites.Not only is this illegal, but it is also very unwise. The reason for this is that there are almost always viruses on these templates.With these viruses, malicious users can still get into your admin page or even cause damage locally, so it is highly inadvisable to use them.
It is also important to turn off write permissions unless you want to make changes to your website.If you have write permissions on, it is also possible for a malicious user to abuse them.They can put malicious code on your website if you have this turned on, so only turn it on if you plan to make changes to your website.
SSL
An SSL certificate is also very important because your users can use a secure connection on your website.You can recognize a SSL certificate by the green lock icon on top of your web browser, if users see this they will usually know immediately that your website is the right one.Many fake web stores do not use a SSL certificate.
If you have any questions about your WordPress admin environment you can always see if there is a chat available.If no one is available you can always create a ticket to our helpdesk.
