iThemes Security

Owner: Wesley Seay

Installation

Log in to your WordPress admin panel and go to: Plugin > Add New and click on Upload Plugin.

Select the zip file and click on Install Now. After clicking that link, you will be asked if you are sure you want to install the plugin. Click yes and WordPress will automatically complete the installation process.

General Settings

Recommended Settings

• Enable Security Check
• Banned Users
  • Enable HackRepairs.com’s Blacklist Feature
• Local Brute Force Protection
  • Immediately ban a host that attempts to login using the “admin” username.
• SSL
  • Enable redirect all HTTP page requests to HTTPs

Advanced

• Change Admin ID
  • Change Admin ID from 1
• Change Database Table Prefix
  • If Database table prefix is “wp_”, change the prefix of the database.
• Hide Backend
  • Enable the hide backend feature
  • Change Login slug to “manage”

For more information about iThemes Security, you can visit https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security