Title: WordPress Security
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WordPress Security

 *  [natewptan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/natewptan/)
 * (@natewptan)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-security-3/)
 * Hi everyone, I’m in the process of setting up a WordPress blog (v2.9.2) and much
   has been said about the security of WordPress, which can be most overwhelming
   for me as I’m only a blogger; not a programmer.
 * Hence, I’d be eternally grateful if you could kindly point out to me what are
   some of the up-to-date plugins I could use, where I could not only backup my 
   database and also my blog contents automatically. It’d be best also if you know
   of any plugins that could send the backed-up files periodically to my email.
 * Also, as I’m starting fresh, using below as a process, could you also kindly 
   advise what other steps I should include, so that I could stay secured.
 * 1. Install WordPress and choose a solid password and username
    2. Install plugin
   and create automated backups of database and blog contents sent to email 3. Make
   sure the copies of backup are saved in different platforms 4. Change my table
   prefixes to other than “wp_” 5. Make sure that my WordPress version, themes and
   plugins are up-to-date. 6. Create .htaccess file and put index.html
 * Please let me know if I left out any important steps that I ought to take.
 * Thank you so much for reading. Looking forward to your kind reply.

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 *  [alism](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alism/)
 * (@alism)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-security-3/#post-1467516)
 * Have a read of this too – lots of tips:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress)
   I would strongly recommend securing the /wp-admin/ with a password.
 * There’s a database backup plugin here that I’ve used too:
    [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/)
 *  Thread Starter [natewptan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/natewptan/)
 * (@natewptan)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-security-3/#post-1467694)
 * Hi alism, thanks for your tips. Besides the great plugin you recommended for 
   database, do you have any recommendation for a plugin that helps backup the blog
   contents too, i.e. themes, plugin, images etc?
 *  [batrachoid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/batrachoid/)
 * (@batrachoid)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-security-3/#post-1467735)
 * Those can all be downloaded easily via FTP.
 *  [LostInNetwork](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lostinnetwork/)
 * (@lostinnetwork)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-security-3/#post-1467840)
 * “themes, plugin, images etc?”
 * Oh, that’s called WinScp 😀
 * Yes, I actually tried it. Several times. It works.
 * Just define an scp connection to your webhotel, and with a few clicks you are
   copying your home directory to your local drive. Themes, images, everything. 
   Except for the database. But the database arrives in mail and the database backup
   files are also in some directory there… At least the wp-dbbackup plugin that 
   I use, creates local backups in addition to the email.
 * Restore: Install new WP, configure a bit, dump files (themes, images, all of 
   it) back with WinSCP. Also the emailed backup file is there as a local copy to
   the server. Log in, admin, restore database. Happy.
 * This is a manual procedure, but usually not needed that often.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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