Tag Archives: WordPress BEst Practices

Setting up a backups schedule – WordPress Maintenance Video

The importance of having an effective backup schedule should never be overlooked for WordPress. This video will take you through setting up your first backup plugin and then scheduling your first backup schedule.

Disable Comments – Video – Best Practices

Best practices video on hiding the WordPress Admin Area. It is a good idea to hide the “wp-admin” and the “wp-login.php” area of a WordPress site here is a video with simple instructions on how to do this. Go To our You Tube Channel    

Hide Admin Area – Video – Best Practices

Best practices video on hiding the WordPress Admin Area. It is a good idea to hide the “wp-admin” and the “wp-login.php” area of a WordPress site here is a video with simple instructions on how to do this. Go To our You Tube Channel    

User Groups and Passwords – Video – Best Practices

  Above is our best practices for User Groups and Passwords on WordPress. Try only have one Administrator account all other accounts should be either editors, authors. Also make sure all the accounts use complex passwords. Go To our You Tube Channel    

Avoid Using admin as your WordPress Username

Choosing the correct user name for WordPress

Avoid using admin or administrator as your sites user name. When you install WordPress the default user name is admin, this is something you should try to avoid. Most hackers try access your site via wp-admin or the wp-login.php page, and they know that the most common username out there is admin. They try a […]

Choosing the right WordPress plugins

The lovely thing about WordPress is the amount of plugins and themes that are available to extend your website. There are tens of thousands of plugins available from wordpress.org and this excludes plugins available all around the net. Some plugins are developed very well, using WordPress best practices. On the other hand there is also […]

WordPress Security Best Practices

Here are a few WordPress Security best practices that you can employ to protect your WordPress website from being compromised. This can come from malicious intent or something accidental while working on your site.   Backup your site. Daily for sites that change a lot weekly for sites that don’t change often. Your hosting provider […]