WordPress Tip #2 – Don’t Publish Posts As Admin
Thursday, 01 November 2018
by Matthew Greasley
You username is public, it is part of your posts and pages. Making your admin data known helps bots find you, and can lead to increased brute force attempts on your site. If you publish your admin username everywhere it makes it easier for your site to be hacked. It makes sense to have multiple
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WordPress Tip #1 – Change Your Admin Username
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
by Matthew Greasley
If your admin username is ‘admin’, change it. Even better, don’t have ‘admin’ as your admin name from the start. Straightaway this will add a layer of security to your site. Bots and scripts will then have to discover your username before they begin to guess your password. Brute force attempts at accessing your site
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