A few simple ways to help protect your website

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A few simple ways to help protect your website

There are a many ways that you can protect your WordPress website which are fairly easy to setup. Below is a small list of some. Give New Forest Online a call and we can talk through them with you 01590 688666.

  1. Host your website on a server you trust. New Forest Online’s servers are High speed, dedicated servers. We vet everyone who is hosted on our servers
  2. Install a decent Anti-virus plugin
  3. Install a server/website firewall
  4. Install a Malware Scanner
  5. Hide the /wp-admin directory
  6. Hide the wp-config.php file
  7. 2FA
  8. Disable access to the WordPress dashboard at times your not going to be using it
  9. File change detection
  10. Local and Network brute force detection
  11. Enforce strong password requirements
  12. Use SSL (Https)
  13. Changing WordPress salts
  14. Install a Anti-Spam captcha / reducing comment spam
  15. Performing regular malware and file change scans

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