Securing WordPress: Taking Backup of Your WordPress site

Hello to all followers out there 

I am here with a new post on securing WordPress. Today's topic is how you can backup your site and  can save that backup to any cloud service like Amazon S3 bucket or Dropbox and other cloud services so lets start.........

Why Backup is necessary , Backup is necessary because if your website got hacked by malicious hackers and they have deleted all the things from your website from Backup you can restore all your data and you don't have to suffer for loss of data of your important things.

Because your site may contain data which is very important to you to today I will show you how can you take backup of your site and can make it scheduled so it can automatically do backup on scheduled time and then save the same to your desired cloud service.

For cloud service: Dropbox is easy to use and it is cheap also you also get 5GB free space for free. So in this tutorial i will use Dropbox to save my backup.


1.There is a plugin name UpdraftPlus Backup.

2. Download this plugin and activate it now go to setting UpdraftPlus Backup. This looks like this 

3.  Now click on setting and scroll down and click on Copying your Backup to remote storage

4. Choose your desired service and authenticate there in my case i chooses Dropbox.

 5. Click on the link and authenticate to Dropbox after authenticating click on save changes.

6. Now go to Current status and click on Backup now and choose what you want to exclude from backup. and click backup now Your backup will be saved to your chosen storage. 

You can also schedule backup just go to setting of this plugin and click on File backup intervals under Configure Backup Contents And Schedule tab and choose when you want to schedule the backup. and it will save the backup automatically to your chosen storage.

Thats all for now 

Thanks 
Jitendra Singh with whole Computer Korner and I-HOS team 

Thanks to Gurpreet Singh 

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Securing WordPress: Adding more Security on Login

Hi Fellas 
So in our new series of securing WordPress I am now sharing how to Add more security during login.

Many people who use WordPress for there website or blog doesn't use much security on their login panel like rate limiting attempts of login So today I am sharing how to make your Login more secure.

How to make login more secure:-

There is a WordPress plugin known as Graphic Password by site guarding which will show an image during login and after clicking on right places on images Login will be done so it will make login more secure so lets see how we can use this

1, Login to your WordPress site and go to add new plugin and search for Graphic Password.

2. Install it and activate the same.
3. Now go to setting > Graphic Password 
There is two version of this plugin one is pro(paid) other is free one you can use free one for this no need to install a paid one.
4. Now there is two options one you can choose from existing image and other is you can upload your custom image(paid version). Since I am using a free one choose any of existing image.

5. Now click on the image on any two desired portions it will automatically draw a line between these portions.
You can also click on as many portions you want to make a pattern which is not easily guessable 

6. Now click on save changes and do logout for testing if it is working.
When you go on login panel of your site it there is a lock sign will appear on right top corner click on this it will show the image. Some Malicious users may think that this is a lock sign and they will ignore it but it is mandatory for login without this you may not able to do login.
So this plugin can work as two factor authentication for your site.

7. Click on lock sign it will show the image click on the two portions like you done During activating it enter your login username and password and you can login 

More posts for securing WordPress is coming soon stay tuned.

Jitendra K Singh

Special Thanks to Souvik and Gurpreet Who are there every time I need them 
Thanks to Subir bhai  I am living your dream 

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Securing WordPress:Changing Wordpress Database Prefix

Hi fellas,

Today I will discuss about a really small mistake which many website admins does who has a website based on WordPress.
The mistake is when they start installing WordPress. The WordPress makes a database with a wp_ prefix website admins doesn't change that prefix.
If any SQLi vulnerability is found out any attacker can easily know which database belongs to WordPress and they can steal the credentials of their WordPress account.
Many people develops their website with their own code but they uses WordPress to host their blogs etc so if a SQLi vulnerability exists on their main site attacker can also steal their WordPress credentials so it is advised to Change the prefix of WordPress database

How to Change WordPress Database Prefix

1. In order to change the wordpress database prefix you have to install a wordpress plugin name CHANGE DB PREFIX.

2.After Installing go to setting > Change DB prefix

3.  And Change the database prefix to your desired one.

After completing your changes remove that plugin because we doesn't need this anymore

However this a small issue but this can be a best practice to change the database prefix.

Suggestions are welcome

Thanks

Jitendra

Special thanks to Gray Code Gurpreet Singh & Moni HBH who Helped me on every Spot

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