Best Way to secure WordPress Installation

UPDATE: See bottom of post for a Apache 2.4 upgrade.

As I’ve said before, the key to good security is to be unique and not special. Here’s one particular way to be unique with your wordpress installation.

The management UI
The management UI, thanks to the beauty of php.

Try it out!

If you try to log in to my login page (visit wp-login.php), you’ll be met with a very unhappy looking “Access Denied” message. Basically, my web server is configured to only allow certain IP addresses to connect (and no I won’t tell you what those are…). Continue reading Best Way to secure WordPress Installation