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….

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!

WordPress security has become one of the “involved” topics for me this year and led to the creation of the concept I called “Triple P Of WordPress Security“. Idea behind it extremely simple – create a comprehensive and easy to carry out and support security perimeter for your blog that will allow you not only be protected against current exploits and any new, “Zero Day” hacks that will inevitably be created but also help you recover your blog WHEN disaster strikes!

And I used word WHEN for a reason – No Site Is 100% Secure!

Be it a blog, static site or any other script driven online presence – it is always in danger, just with some scripts more that with others! My goal was to help people secure their WordPress installations using a set of easy to follow video presentations and this is how Lock Your Blog was born!

Before I begin this post I have to make a statement to avoid any misunderstandings – I love WordPress! I strongly believe it to be one of the most versatile platforms for publishing on the web and also one of the most supported. My hat goes off to its developers and community who constantly work on enhancing, improving and what is more important – Securing WordPress!

And while with each major release it becomes simpler and easier to upgrade I know from my experience and from talking to many business customers that sometimes it feels as if decision to use WordPress puts you into constant upgrade cycle….

Upgrade cycle forced by a need to stay secure and one step ahead of “crackers”. Upgrade cycle, urgency of which can be greatly reduced if using some common “Best Practices” and it is exactly what I want to share today…

Do you get a lot of comment Spam? Are all the measures you take only partially help you reduce the number of Spam Comments that you have to moderate? Surprisingly…

It Could Be Your Own Fault!

I know, I know… you don’t create the spam comments and you are doing your best to protect your blog from them and yet, every morning your Comment Moderation queue is waiting for action.

But lets consider some of the reasons people comment on your blog and how YOU can be at fault for what you consider to be a SPAM!