Additionally, it is important to change your password and admin username if you are helped by someone and needs admin username and your password to login to do the job. After all of the work is finished, IMMEDIATELY change your password and admin username. Someone in their company may not be, if the person is trustworthy. Better to be safe than sorry!
I back my blogs regularly using a free plugin WP DB Backup up. If anything happens I will always restore my blog. I use my site to be scanned by WP Security Scan free plugin and WordPress Firewall to block requests to fix wordpress malware protection.
Don't depend on your internet host - Many men and find out here now women rely on their web host to"do all that technical stuff for me", not realizing that sometimesthey don't! Far better to have the responsibility lie instead of out.
1 thing you can take is to delete the default administrator account. This useful link is critical because if you do not do it, a user name which they could try to crack is already known by malicious user.
Another step to take to make WordPress more secure is to upgrade WordPress. The main reason behind this is that there also come fixes for security holes that are old which makes it essential to upgrade.
These are some of the things I do to protect my blogs. Thing is that they don't need much time to do. These are also options, which can be carried out.