Security Plugins for your blog

Sunday, March 14th, 2010 at 10:18 am

I would love to tell you that security is not important and there are not cretins that would love to mess with your blog/s. Unfortunately, that is not the case so you will need to take precautions.

Fortunately there are a few plugins that can help you and save you time and trouble trying to protect yourself manually. Here are 3 plugins I use to help protect my blogs.

AntiVirus – This plugin will check your theme regularly for any bad files that may have been added. You can set it up to email you when it finds any problems so you know right away when you have been attacked.

WordPress Exploit Scanner – This will search your theme and your data base for potential exploits. It will not change any as there are a lot of false positives generated by some plugins like the caching plugins.

WordPress Database Backup – This plugin won’t protect your blog but will allow you to have a current backup data base for those cases where the cretins do get in and try to destroy your blog.

Like I said it would be nice if these were not needed but the reality is that you do need to protect yourself and these 3 will definitely help you to do just that.

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