How To Protect Your WordPress Site Or Blog From Hackers
Are you finding it difficult to protect your WordPress blog from hackers?
With Cloudflare free account you can easily protect your blog in few minutes.
What is Cloudflare?
Cloudflare, Inc. is an American web-infrastructure and website-security company, providing content-delivery-network services, DDoS mitigation, Internet security, and distributed domain-name-server services. Cloudflare’s services sit between a website’s visitor and the Cloudflare user’s hosting provider, acting as a reverse proxy for websites. Cloudflare’s headquarters are in San Francisco.
Below are the few steps to take:
1. Create an account with Cloudflare.
2. Update your DNS to point to cloudflare.
3. Now go to Cloudflare > Firewall, and create basic rules to protect your Back-end, Login page.
4. Create a rule to block (/xmlrpc.php).
Do this and watch the magic of cloud security protecting your blog from dangerous bots and false IPs trying to gain access to your website.
Note: You can as well install security plugin like Akismet Anti-Spam or any other plugin that will help filter spam comments on your blog.
Good luck!