2 Easy Ways to Secure Your WordPress Blog

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Securing your WordPress blog is a most important thing to do. Before you start to fill your blog with stuff, you should take your focus on this. One of the most elementary security measures for preventing your WP blog being hacked is by changing the default username. By default, you?ll get default username ?admin? from WordPress. Unfortunately you can?t just change this default username. Here are the tricks:
1. Make a new user with administration right. This could be the most simple tip, but very effective. After making a new user with administration right/role, you can delete ?admin? user. If you already have made many posts with admin username, don?t worry. You can easily re-asign them to a new user. Make a new username that others will not be able to guess easily.
2. Use Some Useful Plugin. There?s a lot of plugin that made for this purpose. Some of them are:

• Change Admin Username (http://w-shadow.com/blog/2008/07/24/change-admin-username-in-wordpress/).
• WPVN ? Username Changer (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpvn-username-changer/).

Actually there are many plugin that can you use to secure your WordPress blog. Some of them are:

• CAHP Secure Login (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/chap-secure-login/). This plugin applies the CHAP protocol to encrypt your password.
• AskApache Password Protect (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/askapache-password-protect/). AskApache Password Protect will add an additional HTTP authentication to provide a second layer of defense for your WordPress blog.
• Stealth Login (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stealth-login/). This plugin can help you to make a custom login page rather than www.yourblog.com/wp-login.php.
• Semisecure Login Reimagined (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/semisecure-login-reimagined/).

All of the tricks I mention above are enough to protect your WP blog. By implementing those tricks and plugins you can start to blog with no worry.