Andrew Imeson Web Developer

7 Plugins for Protecting your Wordpress site

1. Bluetrait Event Viewer logs everything you would want, and not want to know about your site in the admin area. While it doesn’t make your site

more secure exactly, it does provide good information about activity on your blog.

2. Login LockDown stops multiple failed attempts to login to the WP backend for a time.

3. Secure WordPress blocks certain info from non-admins and non-logged in users.

4. TAC (Theme Authenticity Checker) looks through your theme for security vulnerabilities and gives you information about how many static links are in your theme.

5. Wordpress Firewall blocks fishy http requests.

6. WP Security Scan is a very strait forward plugin that scans your entire wordpress install and suggests that you make changes such as changing file/folder read/write permissions.

7. WP-DB Backup this plugin is great if your site ends up getting hacked, you can have it backup your MySQL database to your server or send it via email on a schedule. See also Backup WordPress = 2 Plugins + Gmail.