10 Wordpress Security Plugins To Keep Your Blog Safe

Posted in Tools | On 4th December 2009 | 20 Comments

It’s every bloggers worst nightmare, waking up and opening your blog to find out it’s been hacked, potentially you could lose all of your articles, themes and even your entire database.

In today’s modern world it certainly pays to be security conscious, regularly backing up your database is a good start, but what is even better is having some mechanisms in place to hopefully prevent it getting that far.

Here are 10 plugins that will help secure your Wordpress install and keep your hard work safe and hopefully keep the hackers away, I have briefly outlined the function of each plugin, but if you visit the link you will be able to read more and learn how to implement.

Admin SSL

adminssl

Secures your login pages, admin panel or anything else you wish to secure.

HTTP Authentication

http

HTTP Authentication plugin with many modules.

Login LockDown WordPress Security

http

Records failed logins and the IP that failed, and also locks out IP address for a time period.

Secure Files

http

Allows uploading and download of files from outside the root directory.

WP-Secure Remove Wordpress Version

http

Removes WP version from meta tags to stop others knowing what version you’re running.

Secure WordPress

secwp

Removes error info on login pages, as well as WP version in front end.

Stealth Login

stealth

Allows creation of customs urls for logging in and out and for the admin section of your blog.

TAC – Theme Authenticity Checker

tac

Scans your themes for any unwanted or potentially dangerous code.

WP Security Scan

wps

Scans your Wordpress install and suggests ways to improve any weaknesses.

WP Sentry

wpsen

Allows restricted postings and doesn’t allow Google to index.

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20 Comments

  • Dan
    December 4, 2009

    Thanks for this; it’s a recent concern of mine so I plan to install some of these plugins.

  • Akhil Bansal
    December 4, 2009

    Very helpful collection.

    Thanks,

  • samlyons
    December 4, 2009

    Thank you so much for this list. You are a legend!

  • Sergej Müller
    December 4, 2009

    Antivirus plugin for WordPress: http://wpantivirus.com

  • Roger Duck
    December 4, 2009

    Considering the threats against WordPress this year, these tools are an important addition to your WordPress arsenal.

  • Ken
    December 4, 2009

    You should change yer conical url to webm.ag instead of http://www.webm.ag since it’d be a waste to not use such a short domain hack! ;)

  • McBonio
    December 4, 2009

    LOL I keep meaning to do that Ken!

  • James
    December 5, 2009

    Bloggers – You gotta do it – you gotta lock down your sites.

    I’ve personally had one of my sites hacked and trust me, it’s no fun cleaning up the mess.

    This is a great list of recommendations.

    Thanks for putting this together.

  • Zugvogel
    December 7, 2009

    A very helpful list to secure a blog.
    Thanks!

  • Mike
    December 13, 2009

    Thanks for putting together the list. There’s at least four of those that I’m going to download and put to use today.

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