Comments on: Ways To Keep Your Travel Blog Safe When You’re Traveling

By: Anil Polat

Anil Polat — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:51:07 +0000

haha, thanks 🙂 Love the word frack – glad it’s made it into our lexicon 🙂

By: Nomadic Chick

Nomadic Chick — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:24:21 +0000

Not to swear, but this whole series is fracken excellent! I hadn’t even considered protecting my blog. I’ll be doing password generator and Login Lockdown among other suggestions in the series.

By: Anil Polat

Anil Polat — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:06:51 +0000

In reply to Jack – eyeflare travel.

Great additional tips Jack, I appreciate them. …and you’re right once Lockdown locks you out it can be a bit frustrating to wait for the lockout to end of unlock it using the file you mentioned. The security trade-off I suppose. Also good incentive to remember your password 🙂

By: Jack - eyeflare travel

Jack - eyeflare travel — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:58:05 +0000

Watch out when using Login Lockdown though, it will lock the account quite thoroughly. I wish I could remember the name of the file, but there’s one available that will let you unlock things again by uploading a specific file to your server and running it.

Anyway, it’s also good practice to harden your WordPress installation by doing other things:

– Remove the footprint in the header which tells what version you’re using
– Remove the LiveJournal remote blogging capabilities
– Move your admin login page to something other than /wp-admin/
– Change the database name to something not easily guessable rather than the default… “gRe5n_raBB1t” is a lot harder to guess than “wp_db”!

By: Anil Polat

Anil Polat — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:51:55 +0000

In reply to Nomadic Pinoy. ...and still there is so much spam! Moderation has helped me reduce it as well but they are relentless.