Are you Protecting your WordPress Blog???(Today Using strong Password)

April 12, 2009 by Bob
Filed under: Misc, WordPress 

Are you protecting your WordPress Blog?  I have heard many time that someones blog was hijack or was taken over by someone.  You can call this being hacked.

In this series of posts, we will show you how to protect you blog.

Today we will talk about the simplest thing you can do to protect your Blog

Change Your Admin Password.  Its the easist and simplest thing to do.

There are some tricks you need to know in picking a good password…

What you should do with your password…

  • Always Use a complex password. 
  • Always Use Upper and Lower case letters
  • Always Use numbers in your Password
  • Always Use special characters in your Password
  • Always make your password at least eight long. Longer is better
  • Always Change your password on a regular schedule.

What not to dowith your password…

  • Never use a password that is the same as the login name
  • Never use your name in your password
  • Do not use a word that can be found in the dictionary
  • Never have a password less than 8 characters in length
  • It simple, don’t tell anyone your password

How do I make a good password?
NOTE: These are only example and you should not use them yourself.

Mix up some letter and number to start.  How about “ilike2blog”.
This is a very good starting point.  It has letters and numbers.

Let change it a little.   “ILike&25BLoG”  This become a even more complex password.

The two example above on a scale of 1 to 5 would be 3. 

But let create a password that would be a 5 or very complex.

p(4h&JMq6&))4hK

This password is a very complex password and very hard for anyone to guess.

So what you want to do today is, change your WordPress Admin password and make it a complex password.

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3 Comments on Are you Protecting your WordPress Blog???(Today Using strong Password)

  1. FridrihLop on Fri, 29th May 2009 6:23 pm

    2. Good article, the advertisment is sold?

  2. webhoster on Tue, 11th Aug 2009 4:28 pm

    3. i think this information is valuable; however keep in mind that every website should be protected well..not only the wordpress blogs

  3. Cheap Web Hosting on Tue, 3rd Nov 2009 7:10 pm

    4. Good point. And it is even worse if we have done everything that we can but someone steal our complex, frequently changed password by hacking our autosave password management in our web browsers. It’s a pain in the ass. But at least it is a sign that we should move to another security protection.

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