Securing a WordPress installation is certainly not a new topic. A quick Google search will turn up a large number of guides on how to go about doing this. Many of these have great information already but this task can often seem tedious to those that are inexperienced or don’t have a lot of time to spend on it. Given that WordPress is by far the most popular script that our clients use on our servers, I wanted to quickly highlight a couple of plugins that we find very useful in mitigating various issues that we’ve observed.

Better WP Security

The Better WP Security plugin offers a set of very straight forward steps that you can follow to help secure your WordPress installation as you can see below. Continue reading →