We all know that WA provides awesome security services & guaranties ...

In fact Kyle had a recent (December 5, 2018) featured comment on this topic, where he said:

Quote: "You do not need a (security i.e. wordfence) plugin being a member here at WA, it is completely redundant and will be an unnecessary load on your website.

You have security and prevention from botnet here within the SiteProtect platform, which is included with all websites. It is done at the server level, not at the plugin level, so it creates far more security.

Security plugins ... can actually create security vulnerabilities on your website and I DO NOT recommend them.

You are well covered using the hosting here at WA and with SiteProtect." Unquote.

Which is AWESOME!

Still ... Life happens ... And the history of the Internet is the proof: there is no such thing as bulletproof, impenetrable security.

And just one example ... I can remember dozens of recent posts and questions about mysteriously created admin user accounts ...

As we already know, it was caused by a flaw (already fixed) in the GDPR Compliance plugin.

Marion Black has a very useful post on this issue:

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/marionblack/blog/dont-let-th...

The point: no matter how secure is your host and your site, there is always a risk ... Theme or plugin vulnerabilities, browser hacks, malicious brute force attacks, etc ...

This is why I've decided to create this short tutorial where I will show you how to avoid & solve another very common and heavily overlooked security problem.

Interested?

Let's do this!



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TeamIceCream Premium
Awesome! Thank you Zed! ;-)
Sharlee (Chocolate IceCream)
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smartketeer Premium
Thank you Sharlee!
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JMatonge1 Premium
Marvelous work, Smartketeer. This is of great benefit to some of us. Thank you.
Joseph.
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smartketeer Premium
Thanks Joseph!
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Floria Premium
Thanks Zed! If our password is crucial, would you recommend using lastPass?
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smartketeer Premium
If you are talking about the password manager, yes.
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Floria Premium
Yes. Exactly. Thank you. :)
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smartketeer Premium
My pleasure!
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tslazyk5894 Premium
Before I was a member of Wealthy Affiliate I purchased "Blog Defender," which is "iThemes Premium Security" with "Backup Buddy" and "Cloud Defender," which makes use of Cloudflare. From the sound of this message I should uninstall iThemes Security Pro, correct? I have not yet added the site to Cloudflare. Do you recommend uninstalling ithemes security pro and not using Cloudflare? It seems like I don't even need Backup Buddy which I was going to configure to work with Google Drive. I'm feeling like I should not do all three, since all three would be redundant? It would really be nice if we were allowed to use usernames other than "Admin." Do you foresee that happening anytime?
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smartketeer Premium
If you moved your site to WA you won't need them ...

If your site is outside of WA I'd use them ...

You can change/update your username ...

See this

https://themeisle.com/blog/change-wordpress-usernames/
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kiliwia62 Premium
Thank you very helpful to know :)
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smartketeer Premium
Thanks Sylvia!
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