Protecting your WordPress Blog from Hackers

Posted by Mercury Thread | Posted in Blogging, Blogs (we like), Wordpress | Posted on 25-02-2008

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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

  1.  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.
  2. 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.
  3.  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.

Comments (8)

SEO Consultant said on 28-02-2008

Nice tips Mike, I’ll be sure to add them
Jim said on 28-05-2008

Great info your sharing with us Wordpress geeks,
more of this valuable info please.
Internet Marketing Uncut said on 13-07-2008

This is great advice. My blogs are constantly being nailed with spam.
internet marketer said on 16-07-2008

Thanks for the extra tips Mike! I knew a bit, but still thanks for the heads up.
SEO Consultant said on 17-07-2008

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?
Tom Walsh said on 19-07-2008

Thanks for the advice. Is anywhere safe from spam?
Fredi said on 23-07-2008

Awesome items!! Give us the full lowdown along with loads of pictures when you get back.

Fredi
http://www.racksites.com
Jack Carter said on 05-05-2010

It is also easy to backup and transfer all your websites from one server to another server if you have cPanel installed:.:

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