Illegal hacking is a serious offense. Google “prevent WordPress hacking” and you will see over 5 million results, which shows how much people care about protecting their websites and blogs from hacking. Is your WordPress safe from hacking? Check out the following 10 ways to protect your WordPress site from hacking: Note: Wherever plugins are mentioned, they are applicable to paid WP sites. Free WP sites cannot install plugins. Update to Latest Version WordPress notifies you whenever there is a relevant updated version of WP. Sometimes many of us tend to ignore it; However, these updates are important because they contain the latest security fixes. By not updating WP, you expose the blog to hacking in the future. Change password often This is an often overlooked feature. You should change your WP password at least twice a month. Try to make the password difficult to crack by including upper and lower case letters, symbols, uppercase letters and numbers. If the password is mixed up, it becomes difficult for the hacker to break into it. Also, if there is more than one WP user for the same blog, ask other admins to follow suit. Avoid using names, dates of birth, names of favorite movies and others as passwords. Take a Weekly Backup You should have a backup of the entire WP database before and after making any changes to it. You can do this manually or use the Backup Buddy plugin which will email you the backup of the entire database. By entire database we mean everything related to files, images, digital media and others. If you use this plugin, remember to update it as updates appear. Use WP Security Scan This is one of the best WP security plugins available...... middle of paper ......l. This should be avoided because hackers can use admin indexes to hack your website. How to avoid it? Create a robots.txt file in the root directory and insert the following code: #User-agent: *Disallow: /cgi-binDisallow: /wp-adminDisallow: /wp-includesDisallow: /wp-content/plugins/Disallow: /wp -content/cache/Disallow: /wp-content/themes/Disallow: */trackback/Disallow: */feed/Disallow: /*/feed/rss/$Disallow: /category/*Once the code is installed, search The engine crawlers will not attempt to index the above pages. PS: To make the above code changes, you need to navigate to the cPanel directory. If you do not have this access, ask the webmaster to make the changes. Conclusion Protecting your WP site is necessary against hackers. Most of the time we are not aware of it or just assume that the site is safe, so follow the above methods and implement it as soon as possible..