Title: Plugins vs Hacks
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Plugins vs Hacks

 *  [joaoramos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joaoramos/)
 * (@joaoramos)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-vs-hacks/)
 * Hi,
 * I’ve been coding some security hacks and hiding failed login errors and the WordPress
   version, forcing SSL on wp-admin, changing the core files to another directory,
   changing the MySQL table prefix, etc.
 * Then I realized that someday security risks will change, as new WordPress releases
   will have new vulnerabilities and old hacks will deprecate. What do you think
   about that? Should we use plugins instead of coding specific hacks? Personally
   I like to manually be in charge of my own stuff, but someday I won’t have the
   time nor the patience to code it by hand. Plus, I run 10+ WordPress blogs, so
   I’ll have 10x the work when updating all my security hacks.
 * What do you think? Should we use plugins or handcraft our own security hacks 
   everytime a major release is out? Would you please share your thoughts on this?
 * I apologize for my bad english 🙂
    João

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-vs-hacks/#post-1705952)
 * When it comes to security, I will never put my trust in third-party plugins. 
   I mean no offense to the developers who work hard to provide free security plugins
   to the community, but security is the one thing that I want complete control 
   of, no matter how long it takes to implement.
 * If you’d like to implement your own security measures, this article has always
   featured the most current recommended security measures:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress)

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