WordPress Website Security Self-Audit Process

If you have a website built with WordPress, then as the website administrator, the security of the website becomes particularly important.How can you know if your website is secure?This articleNaibabijiintroduces the conventional WordPress security check process.

WordPress Security Review Checklist

1. Keep Software Updated

The WordPress core itself, along with Themes and Plugins, are updated from time to time. These updates usually include bug fixes and new features. Therefore, for security, we must keep the software up to date. Some excellent managed hosting providers will automatically upgrade for you, such asSiteGround, or you can manually upgrade periodically yourself. If you are concerned about compatibility issues with the new version, you can update a few days later, or set up a test environment to update first and then update the main website after confirming no issues.

2. Check Website Users

In the WordPress Admin Dashboard under Users, you can see the list of users on your website. Usually, you only need to be concerned with the administrator accounts. A normal website will have only one administrator account if you haven't added any manually. If you find unfamiliar administrator accounts, you should be cautious. And if your website uses WooCommerce to build an online store, there will definitely be many registered accounts. Only accounts with roles like Editor or Author can publish Posts on your website, so these also need attention.

3. Analyze Website Traffic Status

A normal website will have relatively stable traffic, without significant sudden increases or decreases. If you find your traffic suddenly becomes very low, you need to check the reason. For methods to track traffic, refer to:How to add Google Analytics tracking code to your self-built website to view daily traffic

4. Check Website Backup Data

Naiba previously shared an article aboutPrevent Data Loss: 10 Excellent WordPress Backup Plugins Recommended, and I believe many friends have followed along. However, if your website is particularly important, it is recommended to regularly check whether the backup data exists in the set location and whether the backup data is normally usable. Previously, the backup Plugin data Naiba used had garbled characters; fortunately, Naiba manually restored it. If you encounter data that cannot be restored, then the backup is essentially useless.

5. Utilize Some Online Security Scans

To be honest, the significance of these online scans is not particularly great. By the time they can detect issues, as an administrator who visits your own website daily, you should have already noticed the problem.Since most foreign trade websites focus on Google SEO, we can simply use Google's website status check tool to test.https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search

How to Protect WordPress Security?

For our ordinary websites, it's rare for hackers to specifically target your site, so it's sufficient to just do the daily security protection work well. Specifically, this includes:

1. A secure server;
2. A high-security password;
3. Not easily installing Themes and Plugins from unknown sources;
4. Performing regular backups.

If you still feel uneasy, you can also install some security plugins.

• WordPress Security Plugin Recommendation: Defender Security_Malware Scanning_Firewall
• 9 WordPress Brute Force Login Protection Plugins to Secure Your Website