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"Due to the popularity of WordPress, WordPress websites are often hacked. In this article, we listed the easy ways & tips to secure your WordPress website. Having a fast and dynamic website is what most website owners prefer nowadays, however, it is imperative that you do not overlook website security that requires keeping your website free of threats and attacks."

Check out these truly effective WordPress hacks and you can get real advantage of these tricks when you understand and implement real strategies.

Useful WordPress tips, tricks and hacks for every WP user.

Have You Been Hacked? FixMyWP makes this service a priority, gets the job done fast and protect your website so it doesn´t get Hacked again in the future.

"My WP Backup is the best way to protect your website in the event of server loss, data corruption, hacking or to migrate your WordPress data easily. My WP Backup is the best way to protect your data and website in the event of adverse server events, data corruption, hacking and more. With the option to create whole site backups or database backups and have them delivered via FTP, Dropbox, and Google Drive, you can sleep easy knowing you're protected."

"In this article, we'll look at how you can add your own custom links to the bar with code so you can quickly access parts of the front and backend of your site with ease. This will be a simple enough task, all we need is one function: add_node(). I recommend taking a look at what the Codex has to say about it, I'll show you the basics using a couple of examples."

"Protect your WordPress site by hiding vital areas of your site, protecting access to important files, preventing brute-force login attempts, detecting iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security) gives you over 30+ ways to secure and protect your WordPress site. On average, 30,000 new websites are hacked each day. WordPress sites can be an easy target for attacks because of plugin vulnerabilities, weak passwords and obsolete software."

"The Wordfence WordPress security plugin provides free enterprise-class WordPress security, protecting your website from hacks and malware. Wordfence starts by checking if your site is already infected. We do a deep server-side scan of your source code comparing it to the Official WordPress repository for core, themes and plugins. Then Wordfence secures your site and makes it up to 50 times faster"

"Make comments management easier by applying some of the simple hacks the Yoast team uses. Make comments management easier by applying some of the simple hacks the Yoast team uses. This plugin adds some small hacks around core WordPress comments to make them more bearable: Cleaner comment notification emails. The option to disallow comments below a certain length. The option to redirect first time commenters to a thank you page. An input field on the comment edit screen to change the comment parent ID. Links in the admin comments section to email individual commenters. A button in the WP toolbar to email all the commenters on a post. See the screenshots to get an even better idea of the plugins functionality."

One of the few downsides when it comes to using WordPress or other CMS, is that there is a risk that your site will be targeted by hackers. Ranging from simple brute force attacks to your login page. Learn how to prevent your WordPress site being hacked.

Yoast Comment Hacks combine 5 modules that once existed as separate plugins. There is no need to use outdated, and separate plugins to manage your comments.

There are tons of plugins you can use to tighten your site's security and reduce the likelihood of being hacked. If you scared more to see my previous articles about WordPress security than you need planty of WordPress plugins to secure your WordPress website.Here are a handful of popular options.

"I wanted to use widgets in the footer of my WordPress theme but my wordpress theme didn't come with a footer-sidebar by default. I didn't really wanted to change the theme just because of that. So I hacked the wordpress theme to introduce footer-sidebars. If you are looking for a tutorial that explains how you can add sidebars/widgets to the footer of your WordPress theme then keep reading."

"The easiest, most effective way to secure WordPress in seconds. iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security), #1 WordPress Security Plugin iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security) gives you over 30+ ways to secure and protect your WordPress site. On average, 30,000 new websites are hacked each day. WordPress sites can be an easy target for attacks because of plugin vulnerabilities, weak passwords and obsolete software."

"The edit_theme_options capability should allow the user to edit the sidebar as described on this page : http://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Widgets_SubPanel Code to add to functions.php $role = get_role('editor'); $role->add_cap('edit_theme_options'); Edit: This should work to prevent editor accessing themes or menus function custom_admin_menu() { $user = new WP_User(get_current_user_id()); if (!empty( $user->roles) && is_array($user->roles)) { foreach ($user->roles as $role) $role = $role; } if($role == "editor") { remove_submenu_page( 'themes.php', 'themes.php' ); remove_submenu_page( 'themes.php', 'nav-menus.php' ); } } add_action('admin_menu', 'custom_admin_menu'); I haven't had chance to test this, but it only removes them from the menu they may still be able to access them by typing in the URL directly."

"// --------------------------------- // Redirección de registro (login) // según el tipo (rol) de usuario. // --------------------------------- function mytheme_custom_login_redirect($redirect_to, $request, $user) { global $user; if ( isset( $user->roles ) && is_array( $user->roles ) ) { // Si es un usuario administrador // le redirigimos a la página de gestión de plugins if ( in_array( 'administrator', $user->roles ) ) return home_url( '/wp-admin/plugins.php' ); // Si es un usuario con permisos de editor // le enviamos a la página de gestión de entradas. elseif ( in_array( 'editor', $user->roles ) ) return home_url( '/wp-admin/edit.php' ); // Y a todos los demás usuarios // les redirigimos a la página de inicio de la web. else return home_url(); } else { return $redirect_to; } } add_filter( 'login_redirect', 'mytheme_custom_login_redirect', 10, 3 );"

Great simple guide on how to protect your WordPress website from malware infections