Hardening a wordpress install

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  nextaudiolabs · Member · Dec 17, 2015 at 4:39 am

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  Where could I find some info or who could I contract to help me survey and potentially harden my wordpress install in preparation for a public release of my next software via the website?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  kulash · Member · Dec 17, 2015 at 5:34 am

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  This post and this post both contain some great tips for hardening your WP site security, and the second post even recommends 25 different plugin options for scanning and security.

  This free WordPress security scanner WPScan might also interest you.

  Good luck on your software release!

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  justjennifer · Member · Dec 17, 2015 at 5:52 am

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  @nextaudiolabs @kulash – Hey there, these are the forums for sites hosted by WordPressdotcom.

  If you need further help with a standalone WP install, please head over to the support forums at https://wordpress.org/support/ If you don’t have a username there, you can register one on that page.

  WP and WordPressdotcom are different entities. You can learn more about that here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  Best wishes

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  kulash · Member · Dec 17, 2015 at 8:14 pm

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  Oops, my bad! Thanks for the catch. @justjennifer

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Dec 17, 2015 at 8:22 pm

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  The Codex has a Hardening WordPress piece as well:

  http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

  If you need further help, don’t hesitate to post in the WordPress.org forums, as Jennifer mentioned above.