When it comes to sharing your ideas and thoughts with your audience, there is no better way than writing it on the Internet through a blog. And the best CMS in the market is WordPress for blogging. It is easiest to manage a blog or a website to manage on WordPress, thanks to its amazing features and extraordinary plugins.

But, a hard reality of managing a WordPress blog is an open source system and thus there high chances to get hacked. So, What are the things that you can do to prevent your WordPress blog from getting hacked?

We are going to show you some of the steps and tips that you can take care of that prevent your thought, ‘What if my WP blog is Hacked?‘

Being Hack Ready

Keep in mind, no matter which of the blogging platform is and how secure it seems to be, all are 100% hack proof. You need to get high-end security, a great backup plugin and a firewall that can help you avoid falling prey to hackers. After all, this, if your blog still stays a victim of a hack attack, you need to keep yourself cool and work start work on it immediately.

Get Professional Help

If you think that things are not into your hands then you should instantly contact the professionals. The professionals would assure you that your blog gets cleaned of all the hidden codes and threats left by the hackers.

Identifying a Probable Hack

If you need to do something before arriving of a professional, you have to be sure that your WordPress blog has been hacked. Check out the below list that will help you to ensure it:

Redirection to another website, and which it is illegal or irrelevant links on the blog

Google marking your blog as insecure

Unable to login to your admin panel

This would help you to track the hacking activities.

Get WordPress to Help

WordPress has the most wonderful and giant support staff who handles issues on a daily basis. You can simply call them up to the customer care center. The technical team would, of course, give you the best instructions that you must follow carefully.

Also, speaking to a support team may help you get the insights of the how this hack occurred and from why. And sometimes, the technical support may be able to clean your blog which would save you and your website.

Updating the User Accesses

Change the settings of users and assure that you and only your trusted friends and your team have the access to blog. If you are running an E-commerce, keep updating the settings and your registered stuff and users.

Changing Passwords

You need to instantly start changing all the passwords including WordPress passwords, MySQL password, FTP password etc to ensure that your blog can be safe.

Using a strong random password would definitely help you. After this, make sure you enhance the security by adding firewalls, and disabling the theme and plugin editor and ensure that your blog does not get hacked again.

Backup Restoration

In the event, you must constantly backup your blog, on regular basis and if you have a backup, try restoring your blog from the time your blog hacked.

The Foremost thing it will do is, it will replace the hacker codes and clean your website. And, no need to worry if don’t have a backup. You can still clean your blog manually.

So, these are some tips and things you should if your WordPress or WP blog is hacked. I hope this article may help you. Be safe and secure, and if you are a victim of a hacking act, share us your experience and to our readers. And you can even tell us any other point that we can add to this list if I missed any.

Thanks!