WordPress Top Plugins

Summary

In this chapter, we covered many ways to help secure your blog. It's very important to remember that no single action can protect your blog completely. But with a few simple plugins and a routine of backing up, you should be ok, no matter what happens to your site.

• Limit Login Attempts—Quickly stop "brute force" login hacking
• Secure WordPress—Deactivate some of WordPress's default elements that cause security issues
• Akismet—Cut comment spam to almost nothing
• Bad Behavior—Stop spam bots and hackers before they ever get to your site
• Upload+—Ensure all files uploaded to your blog are properly named
• WP Security Scan—Scan for weaknesses in your blogs security
• WP-DBManager—Quickly run queries and optimize and repair your WordPress database
• WP-DB-Backup—A ...