Protect Your Wordpress Site From Hacking Tutorial

http://www.trafficisgold.com Protecting your Wordpress site from a malicious attack by using an .htaccess file in your upload folder.

When uploading pictures to your Wordpress site, your host may require you to set the permissions of the upload folder to 775 or even 777.

A permission of 777 gives everyone read, write and execute privileges on that folder. This is very dangerous and can give hackers the ability to access your site and server via this wide open folder.

One way to minimize your exposure is to add an .htaccess file to the folder with the following code.

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This will allow only certain files to be uploaded to this folder and deny all others, most importantly files that contain scripts.

Word of caution: No site is 100% safe. If a hacker wants into your site bad enough they probably can find a way. But by keeping up to date on software and plugin updates, will helps to reduce your risk of an attack.

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[TrafficIsGold]

@cutelonelyguy Sorry, but I've never heard of the plugin. But you can bet there is no such thing as a bullet proof plugin. In the future I'll do more WP videos and I'll try and include more security topics.

[cutelonelyguy]

Hi thanks for this quick but informative video. I see its back in sep 2009 do you have any new WP plugins to improve WP security aside from this method? I just found a WP plugin "BulletProof Security" which is free do you recommend it?

[TrafficIsGold]

@ericmotanu NP!

[ericmotanu]

thanks !

[TrafficIsGold]

@jorcis67 My videos are not the flashiest out there, but I try and stay to the point and give great value. Thanks for your comment!

[jorcis67]

Thanks for the useful tip. Pretty simple and straight explanation to the point.