Secure your website in few simple steps

by Ankit M. Oakyweb- Digital Marketing company

WordPress is a quite popular platform to design and develop website of dynamic nature. The platform offers accord of feasibility to both Web development company and website owner too, hence it has become the first choice to build an Ecommerce website where things like inventory, product’s descriptions are need to be upgrading timely. Though the platform is the extremely in demand and used for business purpose hence it is necessary to know- how much a website designed in WordPress is secured.

Since as per WP guideline WordPress is the highly secured mechanism and timely audited by the developers at Web Development Company but still there are countless chance to break the security system and intrude or hack the owner’s data. In such case, being a WordPress site owner you have to do some extra efforts to prevent your site from hacking.

Secure the login page

Login panel is the way to get entry into a site’s admin panel hence it is necessary to keep secured from unauthorized access. Timely update the admin password and use two-step authentication to keep it more secured.

Eliminate unused Plug-ins

Plug-ins are the pre-designed set of small programs called wherever required in website development. Uses of plug-ins make development process easy and faster, and help to reduce and maintain the file size. It’s worthy to remove unused plug-ins from the website and for security reason wise a Web design company in Delhi never suggests downloading free plug-ins from the internet and use in website creation.

Timely Update WP version

Keep your WP auto updated and notice what type of features and security systems has been changed with each update. It become more mandatory when the process is going to execute automatically, if the auto update is on frequent then be careful to prevent you platform from unwanted hacking.

Plug-in and theme auto update

If your site has a theme based design than consider the timely auto updating of useful plug-in and themes as well. By using wp-config.php portal you can put site on auto update mode.

PHP Error Report

It’s quite possible that some plug-ins fail to work properly and create run time error and showcase the server path of your website and hackers always keep an eye of such errors to know the site’s location on server to intrude and hack as well. To prevent the site from unwanted intruding it is necessary to create a error report generation from wp-config.php .

Author/ username confidentiality

Keep author or username confidential in WordPress. By default WP shows the username in default setting. So change the privacy setting and hide the username and password from the panel to prevent from unauthorized access.

Dashboard Activities

Keep tracing the dashboard activity is one of the additions in WordPress website security features. If your site has number of user then it is beneficial to audit the log activities timely

Though the WordPress is highly secured mechanism and website designed by using the platform are robust and highly secured but still prevention is better than the cure hence every web design and development company in Delhi considers variety of trustworthy security mechanism in website building for any media or business.