Phishing attack is biggest enemy for WordPress blogs. Every blogger and website owner must aware about phishing attack, because this will be harming your entire work. If phishing attack in your blog you can’t get back any source and database, so every blogs should be away from phishing attack. Here we have explained how to protect your blogs from phishing attack.
 
Protect WordPress from Phishing attack

Minimize Plugins

Many blogger using too many plugins for their blogs, unsecured plugin will be big holes for phishing attack to your blogs. You don’t use very older version plugin these plugins nearly unsecured, because much security fixes only in latest version plugins and it should be compatibility for latest version of WordPress. Always use only secured and necessary plugins for your blogs.

 

Secure your configuration file

WordPress configuration file is most important for every blog, so these files should be high secured. By default this files has secure access permission, you can also verify all the files permission should be 644 and folder permission should be755. Your blog configuration and important files should be disallowed from search engine bot; you can make this by using robots.txt file.

 

Choose best Web hosting

Web server performance is one of most important for blog speed; you must choose the best hosting server for your WordPress blogs. Nowadays many web hosting companies provide the web server very cheapest rates but you must aware about the security issues of the server, so don’t compromise about choose the best web hosting. Bluehost and Hostgator provide best web server and high secured with unlimited bandwidth.

 

Use Best Antivirus

Always use best antivirus in your development computer. Every blogger edits images for their blog post from their computer; in this situation, if your computer affected by the virus, it will move to the web server. So that always use updated antivirus and scan your computer frequently.

 

Always Backup your blog

WordPress Backup is hugely important for save your blogging life, because if any unexpected reason your web server down your entire blogs will be lost. So you must make regular backup for your blogs, this will be very helpful from any hosting related disaster situation.

 

2 thoughts on “Protect your WordPress blog from phishing attack”
  1. Hi Ganesh,

    There are many things you should do for your website.
    You should have fully optimized blog to have perfect speed. Have a better web hosting which have low rate of down time.
    Number of plugins should be less to have better performance. All the points you have mentioned are great.
    Great pot indeed.:)

    ~Ravi

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