What's the best WordPress security plugin?

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What's the best WordPress security plugin? I am looking to get the maximum security for the minimum effort.

A lot of security tasks take a lot of time, What can you do quickly and simply in 5 minutes to make a WordPress site more secure?

Thanks for your help!
#advice #plugin #security #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author TheWealthSquad
    Set up wordpress with a custom admin name. Create a second name to do the authoring of posts.

    I use login lockdown as well to prevent someone from taking multiple attempts to hack a password.

    I am sure there are other ways but so far have been lucky.
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  • Profile picture of the author ~kev~
    Login lockdown - in my opinion that is one of the best security plugins you can have.

    It prevents someone from brute forcing your admin password. In other words, it stops people from throwing 10,000 possible passwords at your admin login screen.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
    Although not a plugin, make sure you continually update with the latest WP version.
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  • Profile picture of the author madison_avenue
    Thanks for the advice guy:

    A custom admin name is something is easy to do, so I will do it,and login lock down is something simple to do as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author Abledragon
    All those suggestions are good, but WordPress security is not just about WordPress. It's about your entire PC (or Mac)/online environment.

    The article below describes how one of my customer's WordPress sites was hacked and the steps we took to make the restored version more secure:

    http://www.wealthydragon.com/blog/20...ity-wordpress/

    Cheers,

    Martin.
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  • Profile picture of the author delong8
    Great tip. I was wondering how I was going to protect my membership site
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