protect wordpress admin panel

How do we protect wordpress admin panel and secure it

WordPress admin security is very important. Many people are always take a shared hosting. we given Information about How do we protect wordpress admin panel.  Many people are always take a shared hosting for publishing the wordpress website.

With shared hosting or dedicated you should always think about hack proof wordpress admin panel. So no one can misuse your worepress admin panel. Here in this article I will give you some very nice tips about, how to protect our wordpress admin panel.

protect wordpress admin panel
protect wordpress admin panel

protect wordpress admin panel

1. Create very strong password

Always create a very strong password for your admin user. You should add some special characters and numbers in your password. Your password should be 10 digit minimum and not related to your name or surname.

Main important think is dont disclose your password to anyone.

2. Limit wordpress admin access via IP address

You can use the .htaccess file for limiting the wordpress admin panel for specific ip addresses only. Use following code for that.

<files “wp-login.<span=”” class=”hiddenSpellError” pre=”” data-mce-bogus=”1″>php”>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from Your.IP.Address

allow from 192.168.2.45

</Files>
[/php]

3. Avoid the “admin” Username

You should always avoid the admin username to login. You can easily achieve this. First create another super admin with another name and open your functions.php file from wordpress theme folder and use following code.


add_filter(‘login_errors’,create_function(‘$a’, “return null;”));

There are some very nice plugins also available for providing the wordpress security your wordpress website. Here are few:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/one-time-password/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/semisecure-login-reimagined/

http://www.bad-neighborhood.com/login-lockdown.html

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stealth-login/

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