Title: Hack Prevention Tips???
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Hack Prevention Tips???

 *  [heningerzao](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heningerzao/)
 * (@heningerzao)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hack-prevention-tips/)
 * Does anyone have any tips for preventing someone from hacking your site? It seems
   like everywhere I look there are different tips. What are the best ways to do
   this? I had a WP site a while back that was hacked by someone in Egypt. I’m not
   sure if they did it through my hosting provider or through WP itself, but I’d
   like to prevent it in a site I’m building.

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 *  [sabinou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sabinou/)
 * (@sabinou)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hack-prevention-tips/#post-2072563)
 * You may want to read this : [http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress)
 * I’d also recommend you to read this : [http://ottopress.com/2009/hacked-wordpress-backdoors/](http://ottopress.com/2009/hacked-wordpress-backdoors/)
   
   This one doesn’t really tell you how to avoid stuff, but blog hacking won’t look
   like black magic to you anymore, knowledge is power.
 *  [RyanJBaron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rjbaron/)
 * (@rjbaron)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hack-prevention-tips/#post-2072575)
 * There are many things that you can do to help prevent this, although I would 
   say nothing if full proof, it is best to do as much as you can. Here are a few
   essential things that I would start with, there are other things you can do as
   well, but this should be a good start. Everybody else please add!!!
 * The first thing I would do is to install the ultimate security checker, [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ultimate-security-checker/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ultimate-security-checker/)
 * This will help show you where your website is vulnerable, and give you tips on
   how to fix it.
 * BBQ as well [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/block-bad-queries/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/block-bad-queries/)
   will help stop/block Malicious URL Requests attacks on your site
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-htaccess-control/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-htaccess-control/)
   to limit access to your files/folders
 * Don’t use “admin” as a username on your website. If you already have this username
   set up as your main username you cannot change it from the back end of wp, but
   if you have access to phpmyadmin you can change your username there.
 * Delete your readme.html file
 * Delete your install.php file
 * Ryan

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