I have had two WordPress blogs hacked into in the past. That was at a time when I was doing very little internet marketing, and until I found time to address the situation (months later), these sites were penalised in the search engines. They were not removed, but the rankings were reduced.
In my view, the best way to ensure your is via using a secure your wordpress website backup plugin. This is a fairly inexpensive, elegant and easy to use way to be certain your site is available to you in the event of a disaster.
Truth is, if a competent master of this script targets your own site, there is no way. What you are about to read below are a few precautionary measures you can take to quickly minimize the investigate this site threat. If your WordPress site is well protected chances are a hacker would prefer picking another.
Keeping your WordPress website up-to-date is one of the easiest things you can do. For the last few versions, the ability to install automatic updates has been included by WordPress. Not only that, but websites are notified whenever a new update becomes available.
If you're not currently running the latest version of WordPress, upgrade now. Like keeping your door unlocked when you leave for vacation leaving your site on an old version is.
However, I recommend that you install the Login LockDown plugin instead of any.htaccess controls. Login requests will stop from being permitted after three failed login attempts from a certain IP address for an hour. You may still get into your admin panel while away from your workplace, and yet you still have protection against hackers, if you do so.