Before you go and delete your WordPress default admin account, you are going to want to follow thes steps. This is going to create a new user account for making it harder for website hacker to envade your space.
Secure Your WordPress Default Admin Password Form Hackers
How to Create, Add, and Assign WordPress User Permissions for Your Website
- Log in to your WordPress Back Office
- Now click on user. It's on the left sidebar
- Next click on add new user
- Fill in your New Information
- Also, check the send email to new user radio button (square or round receptacle)
- Make sure to chose administration from the dropdown list
- Click add new user
- Go to your email where you have your website Admin correspondent sent
- Find the email labeled your username and password info
- Click on the link in the email
- You see the user password, remember it
- Click on log in
- Enter the username you created
- Enter the password they sent
- Click log in
- Once again, Click on user. It's still on the left sidebar
- If you click on the Administrator button, located at the top of the page, above the apply button, you will find the account you just created
- You can now delete the hackable admin account by clicking delete under admin
- You did great, now celebrate
- If following this step-by-step direction does not work, let me know
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Sruffey
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I went into my users do hicky in my site dashboard and discovered I had started building a email list. I don't know how but I guess I should be glad right. Thanks for the training, things that are good to know about how to do that, the right way. Please like my comments, thanks Sruffey.
CarlaNavarro
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great lesson thank you for the information. Very useful for me being a newbie.