Title: Secure WordPress
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Secure WordPress

 *  [natewptan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/natewptan/)
 * (@natewptan)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/secure-wordpress/)
 * Hi everyone, I’m in the process of setting up a WordPress blog (v2.9.2) and much
   has been said about the security of WordPress, which can be most overwhelming
   for me as I’m only a blogger; not a programmer.
 * Hence, I’d be eternally grateful if you could kindly point out to me what are
   some of the up-to-date plugins I could use, where I could not only backup my 
   database and also my blog contents automatically. It’d be best also if you know
   of any plugins that could send the backed-up files periodically to my email.
 * Also, as I’m starting fresh, using below as a process, could you also kindly 
   advise what other steps I should include, so that I could stay secured.
 * 1. Install WordPress and choose a solid password and username
    2. Install plugin
   and create automated backups of database and blog contents sent to email 3. Make
   sure the copies of backup are saved in different platforms 4. Change my table
   prefixes to other than “wp_” 5. Make sure that my WordPress version, themes and
   plugins are up-to-date. 6. Create .htaccess file and put index.html
 * Please let me know if I left out any important steps that I ought to take.
 * Thank you so much for reading. Looking forward to your kind reply.

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 *  [mrmist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmist/)
 * (@mrmist)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/secure-wordpress/#post-1467525)
 * Duplicate of [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/388658?replies=2&view=all](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/388658?replies=2&view=all)

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