In the world of this big online business, there are plenty of internet users and in these users, there is a certain breed of people who are looking to hack your personal website information that can bring your business at risk. Hence website security is necessary to make your website data secure and free of vulnerabilities.
If you are a WordPress user and worried about Web security threats, here are some Web application security solutions for you that can be easily followed to keep your website secure.
- Theme
- Login password
- SSL certificate(single socket layer)
- Change website Login URL
- Set Login limits
- Wp-config
Themes
For the website Security, your theme should be the best one it should not be a cracked or pirated theme. So that no malware or any other threats could affect your website code. Best theme help you to protect website code either if any hacker enters your admin area, by securing theme Function files.
Login password
Hackers use huge dictionaries of common passwords to log in to your website by brute force attack. You should choose a strong login password so that no brute force attempt could work.
SSL certificate (single socket layer)
Use an SSL certificate to enhance the security of your website data. SSL certificate ensures the encrypted connection with your site even your ISP is unable to access your website data if it is SSL certified.
Change website login URL
Change the default login Path of your website (wp-admin/) to make a secure login path for your website so that no hacker could reach it. You can do it by using the WPS Hide login Plugin. Like any website has a default URL www.example.com/wp-admin. You can change this default login path to restrict any brute to reach your website login path. This can be simply done by a WordPress plugin
- Go to plugins then Add New.
2. Search plugin WPS Hide login and install it.
3. Activate the installed plugin.
4. Open the Setting of the plugin.
5. Change login URL and Save changes.
Set Login limits
You can also secure website by limiting website login attempts so that any brute force couldn’t attempt a brute password more than the set limits. This can be done very simply by the WordPress Limit Logins Attempts plugin.
- Install Limit Logins Attempts plugin and activate it.
2. After activation, you can easily set login limit attempts for your website and save it.
Wp-config
You can also secure your website by restricting any hacker to change your WordPress source code. This is simply done by adding a single line of code function to the wp-config file of WordPress.
Go to Local Disk(C:) > xampp >htdocs >your web folder >wp-config.php . Open this file and add
define(‘DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT’,’ true’); and save it.