{"id":1591,"date":"2017-12-30T23:05:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T21:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2026-10-16T08:50:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T04:50:54","slug":"protect-wordpress-site-hacked-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/protect-wordpress-site-hacked-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"How to secure a WordPress site from hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"

From time to time, customers sites get hacked. Here are the reasons why and how to prevent that from occurring and keeping your WordPress protected.<\/p>\n

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  1. Within cPanel<\/a> always ensure your ModSecurity rule-set is enabled. This can be done by searching for ModSecurity and enabling it on all sites.<\/li>\n
  2. Always ensure your WordPress Install, Plugins and Themes are fully updated at all times. Check monthly to be sure.<\/li>\n
  3. Secure the Login Page and Prevent Brute Force Attacks. ModSecurity already has built-in protection but it always helps to have a second level of protection in case. We recommend installing Wordfence free version.<\/li>\n
  4. Ensure you are using a strong password – preferably longer than 8 characters and a combination of Uppercase, lowercase and numbers at the very least.<\/li>\n
  5. Enabled the FREE let’s encrypt SSL feature to encrypt your data<\/li>\n
  6. Always ensure your contact us page, comments boxes, registration pages have some sort of strong captcha installed. For example Googles Recaptcha plugin for WordPress.<\/li>\n
  7. Change the WordPress database table prefix<\/li>\n
  8. Set strong passwords for your database when installing it or reset it within MySQL Databases icon and update your wp-config.php file with the stronger password.<\/li>\n
  9. Disallow file editing by adding the following to the wp-config.php file: define(‘DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT’, true);<\/li>\n
  10. Set directory permissions as per WordPress’s Guidance – https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Changing_File_Permissions<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. Disable directory listing with .htaccess<\/li>\n
  12. Remove your WordPress version number – Usually just look for a plugin in the Plugin Manager that can perform it. Would be under Security but there are many to choose from.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Using the above techniques will make it extremely hard for any hacker to hack your site. Always perform some sort of security when installing any website, WordPress or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    WordPress sites can be hacked, but following key security steps makes it much harder for attackers to succeed. Here’s what you need to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hk_meta_description":"","hk_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,119],"tags":[198,200,199,197,154],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-wordpress","tag-password-security","tag-security-plugins","tag-ssl-certificates","tag-wordpress-maintenance","tag-wordpress-security","entry"],"hk_builder":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24887,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/24887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}