I have had two WordPress blogs hacked into in the past. That was at a time when I was doing very little internet marketing, and until I found time to address the situation (months later), these sites were penalised in the search engines. They were not removed, but the rankings were reduced.
I back up my blogs regularly using a free plugin WP DB Backup. If anything happens I will always restore my blog. I use my site to be scanned by WP Security Scan plugin frequently and suspicious-looking requests to be blocked by WordPress Firewall to fix malware problems free.
Safeguard your login credentials - Don't keep your login credentials where they might be found by a hacker. Store them off, and even offline. Roboform is for protecting them good , too. Food for thought!
Should you ever wish to migrate your website elsewhere, like a new hosting company, you'd be able to pull this off without a hitch, and also without having to disturb your old site until the new one was in place and ready to roll.
Now we're getting into matters. her latest blog You must rename it to config.php and modify the file config-sample.php, when you install WordPress. You will need to set up the database facts there.
There is. People know where they can login and they could visit your login form and try a different combination of user accounts and passwords out. In order to stop this from happening you want to set up Login Lockdown. It's a plugin that allows users to try and login with a password three times. Following that the IP address will be banned from the server for a certain amount of time.