Why do you want to secure your website from hackers? Why the want to hack your website? Well, most people think it’s number one to obtain credit card information. Yes, this is a big one. But let’s say that you don’t have credit card information on your site. What other reasons might people hack you? You can be hacked for contact info that can later be sold to unethical marketers, user names, and passwords to gain control over the server where your website is hosted.
Still, you think this is no big deal. Every day 30,000 websites are hacked globally. Not only small websites, sites like Alibaba, Yahoo have also been hacked.
So let’s make sure none of that happens to you. In this article, I’m going to show you how to protect your website from hackers. And this can be done in less than one minute. I’ll also show you how to scan your website for malware anytime you want. As well as how to add a padlock to your site’s URL in order to show people that your website is safe and secure.
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Let Secure Your Website
The first thing to do is log in to your WordPress dashboard and then we’re going to be activating a plug-in called iThemes security. iThemes security is one of the highest-rated security plugins out there and it’s very easy to use.
In order to get it just go over to
plugins > add new > search bar > iThemess security
And then you can see the plugin and it’s got almost a million active installations. You know that it is super legit.
So we’re going to go ahead and click on install now. And then just click on activate.
Now if you look on the left-hand menu and scroll down. You’ll see a new menu item called security. Just go ahead and click on that. Then it automatically takes you into security check and this is basically just configuring all of your settings and it’s going to enable all of the features here.
Now we can just click on secure site and it enabled all of these awesome security features except for the network brute force protection.
Basically what this means is that any other site that is running ithemes security and is connected to this network. If that website gets hacked by a hacker or a bot or any other form of malware, it will notify all the other sites on the network so that they can be protected from that site. So it is optional. But I highly recommend using it.
Go ahead and put in your email address and then it will ask if you want to receive email updates. It is up to you to select yes or no. And then click on activate network brute force protection.
Now all of our settings are configured. So just go ahead and click on close. Then you are inside the itheme settings and honestly, you can leave all those exactly the way that they are. ithemes has already set this up to protect your site as best as possible.
Enebal SSL to Secure Your Website
Now one thing that we are going to enable though is the SSL certificate. That is going to be our little lock symbol before your URL. If you don’t have it go ahead and click on enable. You can only do this if when you signed up for your website it came with an SSL certificate included or you purchase one separately. If you want to know more about hosting services provide by free SSL please check this article.
So go ahead and click on configure settings and also keep in mind that configuring this will log us out of WordPress and we’re going to have to log back in. Please enable “Redirect All HTTP Page”.
It’ll give you a little message that says make sure that your site supports SSL (please make sure it does). Let’s enable and then go to save settings. Now log out and we have to log back in.
Now you will see that you have got a padlock symbol next to our URL. That says that this site is safe.
Where is any invalid login attempt can be seen?
If we just go down to security and then we go over to logs and then you just go over to notices. Here is where you can see those invalid logins. So if anyone tries to hack into your website, this information will show up here with the time.
How to scan your website for malware
It doesn’t matter which page you’re on in the ithemes security plug-in. If you just scroll down you will see a malware scan. You can just go ahead and click scan Homepage for Malware.
Conclution
In this article you learn basic about prevent from hacking is important. And also how to do it in WordPress. Also, clean malware and keep your website protected with SSL. So please feel free to leave a comment and any questions related to WordPress. Thank you.