How to secure your WordPress site

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Why secure your WordPress site?

WordPress is one of the most widely used content management systems in the world. As a result, it is also one of the most hacked CMSs. To avoid any risk of hacking, it is necessary to secure WordPress. Several extensions are available to allow you to secure your website in just a few minutes.

The first thing to secure your site is to keep it up to date. By logging into your dashboard, you can update WordPress in just a few clicks.

What is Wordfence?

Wordfence is a WordPress extension that allows you to secure your WordPress website.

This extension has the following features:

• Identification of malicious traffic: It identifies malicious traffic and blocks hackers before they can access your WordPress site
• Supports updates: It sends you an email every time an update can be performed
• Attack blocking: It blocks known attacks
• IP blocking: It is able to block suspicious IPs and domains
• Enhanced login security: It has a two-factor authentication system and warns you in the event of an unsuccessful login attempt.
• Antivirus scan: It scans all the files and folders on your WordPress site in real time for virus detection.
   

How to secure your WordPress site?

11. Wordfence, a plugin offering comprehensive security for your site.

To secure your site, we recommend the Wordfence plugin. It offers a firewall, malware scanning, real-time traffic monitoring, secures connections to your site, ...

This plugin is updated regularly to remain compatible with the latest versions of WordPress.

2. Installing Wordfence

To install Wordfence:

- Go to the dashboard of your website under WordPress

- In the dashboard menu, click on "Plugins":

- On the page that appears, click on the "Add" link:

- In the search bar, type Wordfence and validate:

- Click the "install" button for the Wordfence Security plugin:

-As soon as the plugin is installed, click on the "Activate" button. A message will tell you that activation was successful.

Performing a scan of your site with Wordfence

11. Go to the scan menu of the Wordfence tool. 

2. Start a scan of your site by clicking the button: "Start New Scan"

3. Carry out the recommended changes

Once the scan is complete, you will have a report with the different actions to take. These actions are suggested in order to improve your site. Simply validate each change.

Be sure to update WordPress and this extension regularly in order to maintain good security for your site.

Conclusion

You are now able to secure your WordPress website with Wordfence. Wordfence scans your website in real time, looking for the slightest virus, the slightest security flaw, and the slightest hacking attempt. Reports are sent to you by email regularly to inform you of issues concerning your website.

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