Things to Lock Down Before Going Public?
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I have all of one Post for my blog, and I might as well go public and start to play with migrating off of Tumblr. My question is what things should I have locked down before I go public?
I have enabled two-level authentication.
I have Comments set to always go through Moderation, or at least I think I do. Under Settings | Discussion I have selected the checkbox for “Comment must be manually approved.”
To have maximum security when I first start up, what other options should be selected?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Do you have feed to summery?
Dashboard >> Settings >> Reading >> For each article in a feed, show >> Summery
That makes it more difficult for your blog to be copied – someone can’t just take your RSS feed and set up a mirror blog with your content
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How many of the characters in the post will show up in the RSS feed if you show Summary?
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Not sure – something like 3 lines or so – maybe 50 or 60 words – not a lot – but if you do normal Posts you need to get the hook in at the lead to get people to read the whole article
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What should be locked down before going public? Your password and the password associated with your email. And don’t make some rando an Administrator. That is all you need to do for security.
You cannot begin to know the security measures that are put in place in the very structure of wordpress.com itself. I cover hackers for a living, and virtually all of what I cover is irrelevant to WordPress.com, because of the way it’s made.
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Currently I’m getting one legit comment per 800 reads on my blog, one comment per 2000 reads on my news articles. Putting moderation in place will mean that the few who DO comment will tend not to return to your blog.
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raincoaster, I would be interested in hearing about security features in WordPress. Are you saying they have developed their own customer web server software, or are they just doing a lot of their own filtering on top of Apache?
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