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1. ColdBlue
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Hi everyone, I have just followed the very helpful and very easy install procedure, and I am now the proud owner of my very own hosted, wordpress blog! :D

   My question is, is there any vital after install things that I have to do in order for my wordpress to be secure? Such as deleting the install script so that it cant be used maliciously etc..

   I have looked through the documentation, and it seems that once wordpress is installed, job done?

   Is that right, or do I have to delete some of the install files from my server ASAP otherwise my blog can be easily hacked?

   Many thanks for any and all help!

   John :)

2. Dgold
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   an important question to ask yourself,

   Do you want your blog & posts to be public?
   Do you want it to be open to comments?
   Do you want people to be forced to register before commenting? (recommendation is: no. Allow comments without registeration.)

   Do you want your blog indexed / noticed by search engines? (If no then you must take steps to hide it with robots.txt)

   Privacy-wise, the above questions would be important to tweak it now if you happen to want a more private blog.

   Security-wise, you're all set and ready to go (at least once you put your API key in the Akismet plugin and make sure it is activated).

3. whooami
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   you can, and ought to delete install.php

   It's also safe to delete upgrade.php.

   do NOT delete wp-admin/upgrade-functions.php -- that file is called and used when plugins need to create tables.

4. ColdBlue
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Thanks for the help guys! I've checked my settings and deleted install.php and upgrade.php

   If those are the only things I have to do, i'll best mark this "RESOLVED" :)

   Thanks again!

   John :)

5. moshu
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Good reading:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

6. ColdBlue
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Thanks moshu!

   John :)

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