It was Monday morning and I was on a call with a dozen others who are my peers. Each of us helps the small business owner with their businesses in one way or the other. It was at the end of the call and we were each sharing our websites and going over how to make little improvements here and there. Time was running out and there was just enough time for one more website review, I volunteered. As my site was coming up for all to see suddenly the screen turned a maroon red with an outline of a security officer with his hand stretched out and the words of"don't precede malware threat." There was more but I was too horrified to remember precisely what it said. I was worried on being destroyed plus humiliated the people on the telephone had seen me vulnerable, that I had spent hours.
It helped me although my first step is. I had a fantastic old fashion pity party. I cried and railed against the evil hackers (that where probably 13 and smarter then me.) And I did what I should have done before I started my website. And here is where I would like you to start also. Learn how to protect yourself before you get hacked. The attractive thing about secure your wordpress website and why so many of us recommend because it is easy to learn, it is. That is also a detriment to the health of our websites. We need to learn how to put in a security fence.
Safeguard your login credentials - Don't keep your login credentials where they might be found by a hacker. Store them offsite, as well as offline. Roboform is good for protecting them. Food for thought!
Recently, the site of Reuters was murdered by an unknown hacker and published a fake news article. Since Reuters is a popular news site, their reputation is already destroyed due to what the hacker did. The same thing may happen to you if you do not pay attention on the security of your WordPress blog.
You can extend the plugin features with premium plugins such as: Amazon S3 plugin, Members only plugin, DropShop etc.. I think this plugin is a good choice and you can use it.
I prefer using a WordPress plugin browse this site to get the job done. Make sure is able to do backups, has restore functionality, and can replicate. Be sure that it is frequently updated to keep pace with all versions of WordPress. There's absolutely not any use in not functioning, and backing up your data to a plugin that is out of date.