WordPress security – Ignore at your peril

Peter Toner
Published: 02/16/2012
Posted by: RET Staff

Ever looked at your WordPress site and had this reaction?

Hopefully you haven't, but if you are not paying attention to routine maintenance you really can't complain if some nasty hacker destroys all your hard work and expense.

Last October famous real estate blogger Jay Thompson got hacked and spent 60 hours trying to sort it all out icon sad WordPress security Ignore at your peril

Now that WordPress is powering 14.7% of the top million websites in the world as of last August, there are more targets for those hackers.

So be sure that WordPress core developers take security very seriously and they regularly update the core software at the first sign of trouble.

WordPress have also made it much easier to install updates with just a couple of clicks.

There are some very simple WordPress security steps to follow: