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14 Steps to Installing a WordPress Site with Hacker Protection, Part 2

Monday, November 22, 2010 by Amy Jo Yates -GUEST-

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Now we are going to continue on to the final steps on installing a wordpress site with hacker protection.  If you would like to see part 1 of this article, please click here.

 

Step 6:  Change your Admin User

“Admin” is the default user that is assigned when installing WordPress.  To change it you must use phpMyAdmin and then update your config.php file.
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14 Steps to Installing a WordPress Site with Hacker Protection, Part 1

Monday, November 15, 2010 by Amy Jo Yates -GUEST-

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WordPress is a fantastic platform to use for any kind of website.  Newbies can get started quickly and inexpensively.  Sophisticated web developers can do a lot with it as well.  Its flexibility and easy user interface is why we recommend it to most of our clients.   Not only is it a great tool, the WordPress team are cracker jack at keeping on top of security concerns that arise.

That being said, malicious hackers still break through and infect sites mostly because some simple security measures are not followed.

In order to protect our sites and the sites of our clients, we developed this 14 Step checklist to creating a hacker resistant WordPress site.
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