Nurture your website: WP Security & Plugins
This is somewhat of a test post, but even apart from the practice of Public Relations, I think that developing and nurturing a website and the way in interacts with visitors and blog readers is an extremely important part of the Marketing and branding process.
I was sitting with a former colleague (thanks Leon!) last night about how much we love to use WordPress. I learned about some security features that can cut down on the chance of WP websites getting hacked:
- Don’t leave the Login link on your website.
- Don’t use “admin” as your username. I think WP was encouraging this early on but then now you have the freedom to choose any username, but not to change it.
- Use the WP Security Plugin. I couldn’t find this one in a first search, so maybe someone can help me out with this one.
- Use the Captcha plugin to avoid comment spam. This one is a no-brainer; I implemented it on my review site already, but seem to be having problems with it on this website.
Second, I have learned that plugins are amazing. While I was under the impression that some plugins would only work on WordPress hosted websites, it looks like the upgraded version allows self-hosters like myself to use them. I have just installed three social media plugins for all of my blog posts:
- WP FB Like – Places the “Like” button in each post.
- Plus One – Adds the Google +1 button in each post.
- Tweet This – Adds the Twitter “Tweet This” button in each post.
While I’m sure there are variations of these, they seem to look and operate fine so far. Any other great (or better) plugins you swear by?
