How to Protect Admin Area in WordPress?
Now-a-days, most of us are using WordPress to create and manage website. This is so because WordPress provides features that not only simplifies manual work of creating website but also themes and plugins that can be used to manage the website and its data as well. As discussed earlier that security of website is very important for a beginner or any business person.
WordPress is managed by WordPress Admin Area which is also called as WordPress dashboard and is most important as well. When any malicious activity started within your website, its first target is admin area. Because if a person got access to this page then it would be easy to manage anything related to your website. So, today in this article, I will share some steps which can be used to protect WordPress admin area.
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So, let us learn about the steps in detail that can be used to protect the WordPress Admin Area.
#1. Change WordPress Login URL: If some get unauthorized access to your WordPress website, then it can be easy for him to login to your WordPress dashboard by using default login URL. For example, the default login URL to get inside dashboard is www.domain.com/wp/wp-admin or www.domain.com/wp/wp-login.php which is known by every one, thus can be accessed easily. So, in order to save your Admin Area, you can change your WordPress Login URL by using a plugin SeedProd.
#2. Set up Strong Password: Passwords are always added a layer of protection everywhere. We are using passwords to access our social media accounts as well, so just think how important it is to set up a strong password. It is recommended not to use default username and password to login to admin area of WordPress. You can change default username and password in cPanel or at the time of installation as well.
The password should include alpha-numeric character and symbols and is not used in any other account.
#3. Protect your wp-admin directory: You can also add privacy to your wp-admin directory. This will add a layer of protection to your WordPress admin area. If any third party try to get unauthorized access then password is required to get into admin area. You can add directory privacy to your wp-admin directory in cPanel.
#4. Limit Login Attempts: WordPress does not limit user to attempt to login even after entering wrong password for multiple times. This will help any one to get unauthorized access to your WordPress admin area. Thus, you need to limit the login attempts so that user get block while attempting to unlimited logins. WordPress provide multiple plugins to add layer of security to the website.
#5. Restrict Access to Specific IP Address: By restricting the access you will harden your website and no one can easily get access to your WordPress admin area. This means you will limit access to specific IP Address by editing .htaccess file.
*Create a full backup of WordPress before editing .htaccess file.
You can do the same by adding the given code in .htaccess file of your WordPress domain directory and Save Changes.
AuthUserFile /dev/null
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "WordPress Admin Access Control"
AuthType Basic
<LIMIT GET>
order deny,allow
deny from all
# whitelist IP address
allow from xx.xx.xx.xxx
</LIMIT>*Replace xx.xx.xx.xxx with your IP address.
Thus, these steps will help you to harden your WordPress admin area and make it tough for any one to get unauthorized access. You can use plugins as well to add layers of security but check that they must be verified. We recommend you not to use nulled themes or plugins as they may be dangerous too.
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