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WordPress is one of the major CMS platforms today. It is very common and used by most of the website owners today. So the hackers try to get to your WordPress website by using the weak points in the platform, theme or plugins you use on your website. So with these WordPress security tips you can ensure a better safety net for your website.

1. Always Backup

Not only you have to ensure the security you also need to make sure you have the necessary recovery methods. Keeping the backup files for your website is very important, as you have invested all your efforts even though you have used numerous free plugins and themes. Installing a WordPress Backup plugin you can make sure you have all your files and database, weekly or daily as you prefer, so you can easily recover your website. Of course there are other Backup plugins that you can find in the main WordPress Plugin Directory.

2. Keeping Up With New Updates

You may be frequently troubled by WordPress theme, plugins or platform updates to the newest version. Updating is very important as the latest updates comes with the security patches for the older ones. The hackers always try to figure out a way to get in to your site, so they go through all possible ways in the WordPress platform as well as the themes and plugins, to have access to your Website. WordPress developers keep improving code and fixing loopholes,to make the platform more secure and robust.

3. Accessibility and Permissions

It is important to maintain strict access of your folders and files. You also have to limit the permission to make any editing or other changes like read only, write or execute, to yourself or to a selected number of people involved in the management of the Website. But you also should be aware of your permission limitations to make sure that your website is still functioning properly.

The more you limit the accessibility to certain folders or limit the permission for any changes, the more you can ensure the safety of the website. But there are occasions when the permission is required by certain plugins to perform the actions.

4. Password Protection

Setting up a password is the basic security and yet it is a very important one. Most people use the password provided by WordPress during the initial installation process, while some other use simple passwords which may be their names or their beloveds’ names. Simple and general passwords are easier to crack by hackers.

You have to keep the passwords frequently updated to ensure the security for your website, not only for the WordPress admin login but also the database. It is important for you to include numbers, symbols along with upper case and lower case letters.

There are numerous blogging platforms nowadays that you can choose from. The most widely used is WordPress. New users might not know how to use the WordPress blogging platform to create a blog post. Here is a simple guide on how to write and publish a WordPress blog post.

Posts are entries that display in reverse timeline order on your home page. Posts include comments fields at the end and are included in your website´s RSS feed.

Creating Blog Post in WordPress

In order to create a blog post, first you have to log on to your WordPress blog´s admin panel. The Login URL link is usually http://yourdomain/wp-login.php if you installed WordPress at the root of the domain. If you installed WordPress in a directory X, then the Login URL is: http://yourdomain/directory X/wp-login.php

You can find the Post´s tab on the top left side of the Admin tabs, by clicking on it you will be able to view the drop down tabs with the option to Add a new post. In the Add New Post screen you can add the relevant title for your post and the content. You can also manage or add more categories, tags, trackbacks, excerpt, comment posting options and custom fields. Once you are done, you can either publish your post by clicking the publish post or save it as a draft for later. You also have the option to make the post public, password protected or private.

Please keep in mind, that creating the post and publishing it alone will not get visitors to flood your blog. You need to also consider that Search Engine Optimization is important to gain traffic. Also Remember that Content is King. Quality and relevant Content is what bring visitors to your blog.

Below is an image of the Add New Post page in the WordPress Admin taken from this Blog. Keep in mind, that you can control the visibility of the options in this page with your Screen Options button located at the top right corner, just under your username.

Adding Keywords

Keywords play a major role in SEO and they have a significant place in your blog. It is important for you to identify at least 3 main keywords related to your content, using all the keywords at least once in all the articles is important.

Title Editing

You have to consider the title you use for all the posts. It is also important for you to use one of the keywords in the titles of all the posts.

Editing the Post

Keywords are very important for content as search engines focus on keywords in the content. With the identification of the keyword or key phrase, the idea of the author is validated by the search engines. There are several WordPress plugins that help you with WordPress SEO, most notably WordPress SEO by Yoast.

To make your blog post perfect and free of errors you have to preview the content before you publish and check for any misspelled words or missing information.

Tags for the Post

The post tags in WordPress are like micro-categories, as it is much similar to indexing your post to the relevant categories. With the adding of tags to your post, the post will appear once the reader chooses to view the posts for particular tags. Adding at least 15 major keywords for your post is important to gain the visibility.

Discussion and Protection for the Post

In the discussion section you can moderate the reader comments and the reviews. You can add password protection for your posts, of which only subscribers and members of your blog will be able to view the particular post.