WP 2.5?

Simon · 2008-04-08, 08:18 AM

Since a lot of people seem to be upgrading older (sometimes very old) WordPress installations, here are a couple of links that will help with securing your sites.

Three Tips to Protect Your WordPress Installation - Matt Cutts

Hardening WordPress - codex

And yes, make sure you change your htaccess permissions back to 644 as soon as possible if you ever need to make it world-writable by setting them to 777 temporarily. And really, if you leave any of your theme files writable by WordPress, or leave the standard 'admin' user with full admin rights, you can count on getting hacked at some point.

Also it's a good idea not to run more than one WP installation from one MySQL database. Sure, you can change prefixes for each install and run several from one database, but if you do get hacked at some point you're making it easy to take down all your blogs with one click.

Lots of good tips in the comments to Matt's article too, don't miss reading those.

HTH

Maj. Stress · 2008-04-08, 03:53 PM

Excellent info Simon. Thanks for passing that along.

2008-04-08, 08:18 AM	#1
Simon That which does not kill us, will try, try again. Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Conch Republic Posts: 5,150	Since a lot of people seem to be upgrading older (sometimes very old) WordPress installations, here are a couple of links that will help with securing your sites. Three Tips to Protect Your WordPress Installation - Matt Cutts Hardening WordPress - codex And yes, make sure you change your htaccess permissions back to 644 as soon as possible if you ever need to make it world-writable by setting them to 777 temporarily. And really, if you leave any of your theme files writable by WordPress, or leave the standard 'admin' user with full admin rights, you can count on getting hacked at some point. Also it's a good idea not to run more than one WP installation from one MySQL database. Sure, you can change prefixes for each install and run several from one database, but if you do get hacked at some point you're making it easy to take down all your blogs with one click. Lots of good tips in the comments to Matt's article too, don't miss reading those. HTH __________________ "If you're happy and you know it, think again." -- Guru Pitka

2008-04-08, 03:53 PM	#2
Maj. Stress Progress rarely comes in buckets, it normally comes in teaspoons Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Dark Side Of Naboo Posts: 1,289	Excellent info Simon. Thanks for passing that along.