Security should always be a major concern when using the Internet or publish content online. If someone gets hold of your personal information or breaks in one of your online accounts, either your email or WordPress blog, then you are at risk of identity theft and the kidnapping of their accounts. Anyone who infringes on your account could steal your private content, send spam, steal your WordPress account, or use it to gather email addresses to send spam a.

Fortunately, there are ways to protect yourself and your online accounts from malicious threats to your privacy and it is important to take all necessary precautions to keep safe online yourself. You can secure your WordPress blog from unauthorized access by installing some plugins that are available for download at the WordPress plugin directory.

Most of these are easy to install and require no care once you have created. It will prevent anyone who should not access your WordPress blog account to get beyond the very basic password protection is provided when setting up your account.

1. Hide your login screen : Stealth Login

A simple  way to prevent breaks in your WordPress blog is to hide the login screen. You may do this by installing a plugin like stealth Login, which will create a specific URL or web address you use to log into your blog, or administrator to perform in your account. This means no link to enter the public pages of the blog. When you want to login, simply go to the custom URL you have chosen and sign in as normal.

This plugin also protects your access page by preventing anyone from going directly to wp-login.php, which is the default setting for WordPress. This plugin can prevent anyone from unauthorized access to your site, even if they can guess the password, to hide the login page for them. This can also prevent programs called robots to get to the blog via wp-login file.The. php new access to URLs and options can be controlled through the settings panel.

2. Ban selected users : User Locker

The User Locker plugin can help prevent anyone from making multiple attempts to access your blog. This can prevent cracking the password when trying to hundreds and thousands of different conjectures. When you register for an account of WordPress there is no limit on the number of attempts that can be done to get to your blog.

This is a major security flaw because it opens the way for unauthorized access through what is known as brute-force dictionary attacks y. They simply try all possible passwords until they have access. The plug-in box office user places a limit on the number of attempts in which logging can be done. If this limit is exceeded, the account will be blocked and will need to request a new password or contact the WordPress Admin to return to the blog. This means that you can only enter the account.

This plugin also allows you to block specific user accounts access to the blog, even with the correct password. This means that you can prevent someone who should not access the blog from getting into it.

3. Prevent brute force hacking : Limit Login Attempts

This plugin has the same effect as the User Locker plugin, putting a limit on the number of logon attempts that are supported. The limit of user passwords can limit both connection attempts through the normal entry process and the use of special cookies. Block any web address to make further attempts to connect after a certain number of failed attempts to access the blog.

4. Prevent unauthorized automated access : SpiderSquash

The SpiderSquash plugin is designed to prevent automated computer programs, such as spiders and robots from accessing your WordPress blog. It works by complicated statistical methods to recognize the bots and automated access attempts. The  SpiderSquash plug-in have access to a global database that is built by all plugins SpiderSquash plug-ins worldwide, and will help yours if you find any new bots.

Your account is protected against any bot that is listed in the database. Each time a new bot is discovered by SpiderSquash, is added to the database and you will become protected against it. This plugin needs to be loaded and activated in WordPress.

5. Encrypt Your Logins : Login Encrypt

The Login Encrypt plug-in prevents someone stealing your login to hide or encrypt the password to enter it and send it to the WordPress site to login.

This is a similar idea to that protects data from your credit card when shipped as you shop online. The information is sent in a way that can only be read by someone who knows the encryption code that was used by the sender. If it is intercepted by someone who is trying to find out their password, they will be unable to read it.

6. Make your login process more secure: Chap Secure Login

7. Ensure stolen passwords only work with a single session: One-Type Password

8. See if your WordPress account has been hacked: WordPress Last Login

Protecting your WordPress account from unauthorized access is very important, but there is a plugin that can tell if your account has been compromised. The WordPress Last Login  plugin will tell you that was the last person to access your account and when identified, if the record of the last was at a time when I do not remember the registration and if the IP address is different from the usual, then it is likely that someone has accessed your account. An IP address is like a phone number for your computer.

You can find out your IP address is from various websites or by searching manually on the computer, but you can also just keep an eye on the IP addresses that are used to access your WordPress account. Soon begin to recognize the IP address or addresses used, and therefore you can know if there is any unusual activity. If an unauthorized access, you should quickly change their password and add a few new plugins to enhance security. You should also check your computer for viruses.