Is your WordPress Blog Secure? Are you sure?

To many people discover too late that their blog is not as secure as it should have been with a very sad end results. In this post I want to share with you video demonstration of WordPress blog hacked in under 2 minutes:

If this would have been your blog – it can be quite expensive to remediate problem. I always advise my readers and customers on taking steps to avoid this, in fact my post Triple “P” Of Total WordPress Security can provide you with all the answers you need. And if you think your blog is not popular enough – think again!

WordPress has became an extremely popular web publishing platform and as such – an extremely attractive target for idiots. While I will not be getting into their motivations behind attacks – I want to share with you 3 plugins that you might want to consider implementing on your blog to ensure your blog safety.

Important Note: These plugins by themselves will not secure your blog and if you are serious about your protection I recommend following my “Triple “P” Of Total WordPress Security” guide or access Free Video Tutorials at Lock Your Blog.

3 WordPress Security Plugins I will discuss in this post can be a great addition to your overall efforts, just pick and choose what works best for you and your particular situation….

WordPress Security topic has become near and dear to me in last year or so and proper backup is not only something I recommend but in fact is one of the cornerstones of the blog security as I have defined it in Triple “P” Of WordPress Security blog post and mentioned by other authority blogs on WordPress Security.

Like it or not but security always starts with preparation for disaster recovery and having good backup is one way to make sure you can do it quickly and with least amount of pain!

Today I want to share with you free plugin created by development team of iDrive that allows you to create a complete backup of your WordPress blog, including all files and database and using Free account. While free account is limited to 2GB it is a very sweet deal and will be more than enough for majority of the bloggers! They do give an upgrade option if you need more space.

Even if you have more then one blog this plugin can be used to backup your files.

With release of WordPress 3.0 Beta 2 we are inching closer to the main release of the newest version of this very popular blogging platform. I’m quite excited as new version brings us not only a host of enhancements but also some new functionality that was not previously available. Mashable did an excellent job of covering most important new features of the WordPress 3.0 and I will not make any double takes on it.

But new features include ONE particular enhancement and functionality that I think will bite many bloggers and cause a lot of pain and I want to share some thought on how it could be possibly avoided!

I believe that ANY new functionality should not be coming at cost of security!

While getting ready yesterday for a webinar we held for our subscribers I did a bit of research and was quite amazed by results. News search for “wordpress” in Google has produced majority of results talking about WordPress security and latest hack that many reputable hosts experienced.

What makes it even more interesting to me is that MOST of the problems people have experienced could have been easily avoided! Today I will once again share my own method for creating an overall defense perimeter to ensure that your blog will be as secure as possible while still retaining functionality!

This might sound strange coming from me, considering that I make my online living taking full advantage of the capabilities offered by WordPress and yet, here is my statement:

You Should NEVER Use WordPress For Membership Management!

On last webinar for Expert WordPress members I have shared this opinion and received quite a feedback, which is greatly appreciated. I know that my statement goes against what many other people are currently teaching but I have very good reasons!

Reasons I will share in this blog post and let you decide if my opinion makes sense or not, it is YOUR ONLINE BUSINESS after all!