If you are a regular reader of thewhir (which I hope you are!), you may have caught the release information about our free wordpress security plugin, WP-Secure by SSM.
Its not magical, its not very sophisticated, and it was easy to do. Essentially, we took the best practices of locking down a WordPress Blog, and automated them. We found that the majority of our clients (wordpress-related) didn’t do even the basics of system lockdown.
We designed it so that it only took a few clicks for the changes (like renaming the admin account, protecting a few directories, etc.) to be executed. We feel its important to give your customers/users not just ‘how to’ articles – which vary widely in quality, quantity and variety. Its important to give them the tools, with a focus on usability and ease of use.
So we wrote the plugin with these things in mind. Simple, searchable from the plugin area of WordPress.. It installs slickly, and is fairly ‘dummy proof’. We wanted it simple and easy.
Oh, and of course, free. We did this as a service to the community and have had hundreds of downloads in less than 1 week! So we feel we’re getting a double whammy with this – some name/branding benefits, and of course, helping to secure some of the more prelevant/simple WordPress issues.
So, go ahead and try it out yourself here at wordpress, or review the details here. If you have comments or suggestions, go ahead and drop us a note!
