As I continue the series of techniques to secure and protect your WordPress blog, today I will be showing you how to protect your WordPress installation specifically against Malicious URL Requests that inject code to exploit your theme’s files and MySQL database.
If you missed my previous security articles, you may view: 5 Extreme Steps to Secure Your WordPress Blog and 10 Simple Steps to Secure & Protect your WordPress Blog.
You can never be too prepared when it comes to internet security, so I have posted a continuation of my previous post, 10 Simple Steps to Secure & Protect your WordPress Blog, with an additional 5 tips to make it 10 times more difficult for your WordPress site to be compromised by hackers.
Here are 5 additional tips and practices to ensure that your investment of time, energy and money in your blog never goes to waste.
WordPress is the most popular blogging platform in the world with over 6 Million downloads so far (See why I like wordpress here) and because its so popular, you know the bad guys will begin to target its users. Hacking is a very serious issue that can cripple any website and erase a hard earned source of income, especially for the unsuspecting. The thing about it is many of us have never witnessed the devastating effects that malicious scripts can have on a website, so I’m going to show you an example of what happens when hackers attack and how to deal with it.
As of the beginning of 2009 there were approximately 
133 Million blogs online. This is a pretty large market and also the perfect playground for unscrupulous persons who live for spamming, scamming and just creating malicious programs that can seriously compromise and disable unsuspecting sites. As wordpress blog owners, we need to do everything possible to ensure that our sites are never exploited.
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