Comments on: 10 ways to secure your WordPress blog

By: Jamey Trainor

Jamey Trainor — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:12:22 +0000

if your laptop and home PC’s are on the same network, someone from other end can find out what is going on other PC’s, if they know what is administrator password for your home PC’s. But as far as i know it’s against law. so it’s depend on other side, but it’s not an easy task to do and not worth it.

By: Ali

Ali — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:29:30 +0000

very usefull, thanks

By: Mike Duguid

Mike Duguid — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:53:45 +0000

Further to these, I’d avoid using shared hosting as it makes elevated file permissions a lot more dangerous (VPS are extremely cheap nowadays), and stop using FTP and move to an encrypted file transfer mechanism (gumblar type ftp sniffing explits account for a lot of injected sites)

By: Oliver

Oliver — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:54:31 +0000

Hi,
the first step to secure your wordpress blog…

1.When you download wordpress you have a folder called “wordpress”.Rename that to something strange for example “deathtoallhackers”.Upload that folder to your root directory.This is strange and unusual but it will help.The next step is to move the index.php and .htacces file from the “deathtoallhackers” folder back to the root.Then open the index.php file and change this:

require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);

to this:

require(‘./deathtoallhackers/wp-blog-header.php’);

now log in at http://yourawsomeblog.com/deathtoallhackers/wp-admin

in the admin area go to settings->general and make sure that your settings to your wordpress url points to:
http://yourawsomeblog.com/deathtoallhackers

and blog adress url:

http://yourawsomeblog.com

this will keep your root directory clean.

btw…use your own strange word:-)

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By: Mattias Wirf

Mattias Wirf — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:53:33 +0000

About the wp-version, it’s printed with wp_head() in many themes. To remove the version, add this in your themes function.php:

remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘wp_generator’);

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By: Yarden Refaeli

Yarden Refaeli — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:17:28 +0000

yea ive noticed and wanted to tell you too…
which is pretty ironic problem I guess..

By: Ernesto Quezada

Ernesto Quezada — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:03:53 +0000

Just so you know, the RSS is throwing this:

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