This is the second video of Blogging Guide video series, I am going to talk about a very simple trick to improve the security of your blog, and make it more harder on hackers to hack your blog administration area, you should do this right after installing your new site because you really don’t want to forget it and expose your blog to be hacked.
It’s a very simple WordPress trick to improve the security of your blog, by following this trick you are giving hackers more headaches and more hard work to do while trying to hack your site.
Make it harder on WordPress Hackers
After installing WordPress new blog, you will notice that your account user name is “admin”, almost all Hackers knows about this, and probably they will try to hack your account using the user name “admin” as a first try thinking that you didn’t change it, this makes their job more easier because they know your user name which means 50% of information they actually need to hack your site.
Improve the security of your blog
You will notice that you can not change your user name from your account, and probably you don’t want to change it in a complicated way by editing your database record where your user name and password are saved! So this trick is going to help you changing your admin user name to another user name that no body knows in a very easy way to improve security of your blog, watch the video.
Blogging Guide video series
This is the tips 5, 6, and 30 that can be found on my 43 Blogger Tips – What you should do after installing WordPress, don’t forget to watch my other Blogging Guide video series and other tips & tricks that you should do after installing your new WordPress blog.
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Security is getting more and more an important topic these days. WordPress is one of the most used blogging software so I am really happy about this article keep it up!
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June 24, 2011 at 2:50 am
Daniel
Personally I don’t think you can be too secure…so I’m glad the article helped.
Andrew
Backing up the database on a regular basic is the best solution ! My hosting provider’s server was hacked and it took one day to recover. All my data was lost but since I had a backup of the database so I managed to restore my blog
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May 5, 2011 at 2:25 am
Nasif
You are in the minority for taking backups! I wish others would read your comment and take note. The majority think this sort of thing won’t happen to them and ignore the fact that taking backups is crucial.
Thanks for sharing.
Andrew
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Hi Andrew,Great video about the importance of video! I could not agree more with you, video adds so much to any website, I am going to start vlogging on my personal blog more often!Ash
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March 26, 2011 at 1:52 am
Ash,
Did you watch this video? It was about the security of your blog NOT why you should use video!
Andrew
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Hilarious! People just drop random comments to blogs only to get links. “Who cares to read the post…”
BTW thanks for the tutorial Andrew. Hackers are ruthless. I also use wordpress platform for both sites and I have to increase the security.
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July 4, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Steven
Yeah – weird how some people comment, isn’t it?
Glad you liked the tutorial.
Andrew
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Thanks for sharing such wonderful tips
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That’s a a great tip – I think a lot of people do that!
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June 25, 2010 at 4:55 am
A lot of people do what?
Andrew
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Thank you for sharing all the wonderful tips.
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June 25, 2010 at 4:54 am
Mary,
You are welcome. I hope they help.
Andrew
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Or set up a name other then admin when setting up the blog.
Not able to view vid right now.
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March 29, 2010 at 4:31 am
Yes, you can do that, Dennis but if it it generated by your hsoting company – still change it. I have heard of instances when login names supplied by hosting companies can be found out.
Andrew
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It’s not generated by them persay, when creating a new blog, YOU fill in the blank for username…at least I do.
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March 30, 2010 at 2:42 am
Yeah – I know what you mean. I did a few new installs yesterday.
I still don’t trust them, though and go into the dashboard and change again!
Paranoid or what!
Andrew
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Ah I see. Do you where one of them tinfoil hats to disrupt the CIA implants too?
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Yes. You absolutely have to change you username, also you shouldn’t keep it the same as your public nickname either. Thats an easy target too.
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March 27, 2010 at 2:43 am
Selurus,
That’s a a great tip – I bet a lot of people do that!
Andrew
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Its very nice to read this article, the most important thing the bloggers should know is only this article to make their blogs unhackable.
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March 26, 2010 at 11:40 am
Thanks, SmashinGeeks. I hope you have the suggestions installed!
Andrew
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security is most important matter after SEO. Two of my clients came to me with same security issue. Their blog was hacked and injected bad script in the footer area of every .php and .html files..
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March 26, 2010 at 11:41 am
Kevin,
I’ve had a few friends expeience that as well.
Andrew
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Nice post buddy and this is must for all as hackers have become quite active these days, thanx for sharing.
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March 26, 2010 at 11:42 am
Suhasini
You are welcome. I hope it helps.
Andrew
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I changed my Admin username to another that’s machine generated long ago to thwart hackers. Thanks so much for creating and sharing your wordpress security series. It’s a valuable one.
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March 26, 2010 at 11:43 am
Thnkas, timethief.
It’s an easy action to take and really helps.
Andrew
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Link injection and SQL injection are very terrible attacks. They screw your blog in no time. Chamging default login name is very crucial. Thanks for clue.
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March 26, 2010 at 11:44 am
BloggingJunkie
You’re welcome – I hope it helps.
Andrew
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March 25, 2010 at 1:02 pm
So simple and yet an effective deterrent against the hackers, nice to see it all explained in video format as well
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I never thought about this trick before I got it from Andrew, it’s really awesome idea!
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March 25, 2010 at 1:13 pm
It’s something that all WordPress bloggers should do ASAP, to give them much better protection on their blogs.
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March 26, 2010 at 11:45 am
Thanks, Karen.
Lots more videos to come!
Andrew
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Exactly we are waiting for the more videos, since security is an essential part of any CMS or website.
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