I don't know about you, but when I was first securing my WordPress blog, and I was researching to see what others were doing to keep their blog safe, I found so much information that I was completely confused. And some of the information was in fact over the top or supersticious. People told me to rename this file, rename this folder and install these ten plugins. It seemed to be quite a bit of work and effort.

An easy way to keep WordPress safe is to use a few built-in tools. First...

You should have heard that it's a very good idea to keep a backup of your website in case something goes wrong with it, it's worth it to make it part of your weekly routine. To spend a few seconds clicking that backup button instead of a few years trying to get back to where you were. But you might be confused about should you run a cPanel backup of your entire website or a WordPress backup just of your single blog.

The difference is that with a cPanel backup you're backing up the...

Well it has been a while! And that is really no excuse, except that I have been productive (to a degree). No, not making a lot of money but definitely learning the art, skill and finer points of standing up websites, especially blogs for brick and mortar storefronts. I am also finding that the basics are still very important but easy to forget once your skill level improves.

For instance, do you rename admin on your Wordpress site after standing up the site? From a security...