How to secure your wordpress based website?

Securing your wordpress installation is the very first task that every webmaster or blogger should do before making your website public. With the advent of automatic scripts and other automatic tools, hacking has become a doodle. Even a 13 year old script kiddie can sit front of his computer and start hacking websites. To protect yourself from this here are the few tips that one can follow to make their wordpress based websites more secure.

How to secure your wordpress admin directory?

As you all might know that the Admin directory of a default Wordpress install is located at wp-admin folder. This folder contains all the administrator files and should be accessed by an administrators only. We can add a layer of security to this wp-admin folder or to our admin folder by creating a file named .htaccess inside the wp-admin folder.