WordPress Security Guide

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WordPress security guide with a manual for migrating from http to https
To ensure WordPress security, we must take a series of measures to protect it both internally and externally. We must not only worry about external attacks from hackers (which we must also worry about) but also about errors that we ourselves can cause through carelessness.

In addition, in this article we will also talk about user security, such as protecting the data sent from the site. You may have heard in recent months about secure websites and https protocols, and the importance that Google gives to them. That is why we wanted to prepare a guide with the steps to migrate your WordPress from http to https.

Security measures you should apply to your WordPress
Creating users with different permissions for each profile: It is necessary to study which functions of our WordPress each of the users who are going to access the page needs to access. For example, it is not necessary for the commercial real estate email list person in charge of generating content in the blog entries to have access to the installation of plugins or the creation of new users. For this reason, it is advisable to limit the permissions of users who only need to perform a certain function on the site.
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Create strong passwords on a regular basis: All users we create must have a strong password that is difficult to guess, both by people they know and by people carrying out an attack. Ideally, it should contain lowercase, uppercase, numbers and special characters, and should not follow any logic when defining it. To give us an idea, a good password would be something like “d7@5$gkTR89(jsI89″. There is one important detail to keep in mind regarding passwords, and that is storage. You should not make the mistake of writing it down on a post-it or saving it in an online document that can be accessed in an attack. There are several applications available for Android and iOS that allow you to store your encrypted passwords, and even in web browsers you can access a built-in password manager.
Create website backups : This is an important point, since at any time something can happen that causes us to lose part or all of the information on the website, either due to an internal error or an external attack. It is necessary to make copies of the current state of the website quite regularly, and more importantly, these copies must be in a safe place and separate from the original WordPress, to avoid losing everything at once.
Hire a good server : Although this action does not directly guarantee the security of WordPress, it will help our site in terms of SEO. When we hire a cheap server (or use a free one), it is more likely that things will happen to us such as our site being part of a network of sites (sharing IP), coexisting with pages with negative content for Google (such as pornographic content or spam) or having a bad WPO (excessive loading times). All of this can negatively affect the SEO of our page, so it is advisable to invest in a hosting service that provides us with certain guarantees.
Always download themes and plugins from secure sites : It is important to download all the elements that we are going to include in our WordPress from trusted sites, since if we download them from third-party sites we run the risk of downloading packages that contain viruses or Trojans that infect our site. security in wordpress plugins
Keep WordPress updated : WordPress updates often correct system errors or vulnerabilities, so you should always try to have the most recent stable version possible. However, you should be careful when updating, since some of our plugins may stop working because they are not compatible with the new version. Therefore, updates (both WordPress and plugins) should always be done as gradually as possible and in a safe test environment. security in wordpress update