What To Do If Your Wordpress Site Gets Hacked Part 1

I have had two WordPress blogs hacked into in the past. That was at a time when I was doing very little internet marketing, and until I found time to address the situation (months later), these sites were penalised in the search engines. They were not removed, but the rankings were reduced.



You can buy security plugins . There are lots of safety plugins out there that promises security for your own blog. One is known as fix hacked wordpress database Scan. This plugin continuously scans the system for enhancing the safety. That hackers can not penetrate the system, it also updates the security.

Protect your login credentials - Don't keep your login credentials where a hacker might find them. Store them offsite, and even offline. Roboform is good for protecting them, also. Food for thought!

Keep your WordPress Installation up to date - One of the simplest and most valuable tasks you can do yourself is to make sure your WordPress installation is updated. WordPress provides you a notice in your dashboard, so there is really no reason not to do this.

Note go that this last step for setups should try. If you would like to do it for existing installations, you need to change all of the table names inside the database.

Always bear in mind the safety of your blogs depend on how you manage them. Be sure that you follow these tips that are simple to prevent hacks and exploits on websites and your own blogs.