Protecting your WordPress Blog from Hackers
I’ve been reading quite a bit lately about peoples WordPress blogs being targetted by everything from Malware Redirects to BlogRoll Spam. I thought I’d stick in some bits and pieces to help you get your WordPress blog toughened up and make your blogging safe. If you have a bog hosted over at wordpress.com rather than your own install you’ll probably never have to worry about these things too much - you lucky people :p
- Keep checking in @ Blog Security: They’ve been doing some great work on keeping the community updated on security exploits with WordPress. Subscribe to their RSS feed - it’s well worth it. They even have stuff on WordPress Mu updates - which is fab.
- Matt Cutts posted about toughening your WordPress blog: the bit about using empty index files can be hughely important as I’ve seen requests for this file going up quite a bit on some blogs lately from some strange IP addresses.
- There are also ten tips over at noupe.com. Some don’t always work (I have some Plesk and some CPanel servers which exhibit different behaviours when trying some of these out.)
Hope that helps all you WordPress addicts get a WordPress installation thats a better, and safer, than ever before.
If you know any other tips/tricks/etc that I could be using drop em a comment.
Nice tips Mike, I’ll be sure to add them
Comment by SEO Consultant — February 28, 2008 @ 12:30 am
Great info your sharing with us Wordpress geeks,
more of this valuable info please.
Comment by Jim — May 28, 2008 @ 7:05 pm
This is great advice. My blogs are constantly being nailed with spam.
Comment by Internet Marketing Uncut — July 13, 2008 @ 1:31 am
Thanks for the extra tips Mike! I knew a bit, but still thanks for the heads up.
Comment by internet marketer — July 16, 2008 @ 11:34 pm
Now that’s an ironic comment above… I like how the name is spammy and the entry is about spam on blogs… HA HA HA HA HA…. So what’s this one? Spam squared?
Comment by SEO Consultant — July 17, 2008 @ 10:42 pm
Thanks for the advice. Is anywhere safe from spam?
Comment by Tom Walsh — July 19, 2008 @ 7:30 pm
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Comment by Fredi — July 23, 2008 @ 7:21 am