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April 21, 2010
Adding Better Security To Your WordPress Blog
By Debbie Campbell
Is DIY SEO any good? Does it work?

Last week I was asked by a client why he wasn't seeing the https: prefix in his URL (and the little lock icon in the bottom of the browser window) when he was logged into his WordPress site. That got us into a discussion about SSL and we wound up installing an SSL certificate on his hosting account, as well as making some additions to his WordPress installation to make it less appealing to hackers.

I learned a number of useful things about securing a WordPress site, so I'll share them here with you.

Forcing administration over SSL is easily done by editing the wp-config.php file. You can enforce either:

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