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« on: April 22, 2010, 09:47:15 PM »
Hi there,

I am a bit confused about securing my WordPress blog.
I see that the best option is to remain the wp-admin folder to something unique which I would only know. So that no one can access my blog login screen by typing http://domainname.com/wp-admin
But then this URL is also seen when someone views the jpegs uploaded on the blog.

So i was thinking is there a way that I can block the wp-admin or wp-login page with a password dialog box. Like if some enter or tries to access the login area that are promoted with a password dialog box and then the blog login screen is displayed.

Or should I just rename the folder and change the path of my uploads folder?

Please suggest.

Regards,
Pratik
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« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2010, 04:48:11 AM »
I would not worry too much about this aspect of your WordPress setup.  However, there are many WordPress related security tips mentioned in this article here that you might find handy:

http://wiki.lunarpages.com/Keeping_WordPress_Secure

Hope that helps!  Thumbs Up
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« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2010, 02:52:05 AM »
Images uploaded to a Wordpress blog are loaded under wp-content not wp-admin. It should not affect images. You can password protect wp-admin in Cpanel and LPCP.
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« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2010, 10:21:03 PM »
WordPress is a community of hundreds of people that read the code every day, audit it, update it, and care enough about keeping your blog safe that we do things like release updates weeks apart from each other even though it makes us look bad, because updating is going to keep your blog safe from the bad guys.
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« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2010, 01:19:37 AM »
I use the Wordpress Firewall plugin to protect my blog from attack, I got 101 attack warning emails in the last 24 hours, so it obviously works.
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« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2010, 04:15:32 AM »
Cool! Thanks for sharing ShanOw.
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