A recent mass-hacking at MediaTemple has highlighted the fact that WordPress installations can be vulnerable, and as WordPress gets ever-more popular, it becomes a bigger deal to keep your site secure. Here’s a summary of some good posts and things to do.

Now, exactly how much of this you really have to do, I don’t know. And, security is a mysterious business, where there are really no absolutes. But … these are certainly interesting.

WP Security Scan plugin

The WP Security Scan plugin does a bunch of things to improve your site’s security, including:

• Analyzing the site file permissions for vulnerabilities
• Renaming the default database table
• Check for current version of WordPress
• Etc., etc.

This thing is a little bit new, but not a bad thing to have. They plan all sorts of cool stuff in future releases, too.

WordPress File Monitor

Monitors all kinds of stuff about your file system, to see if anything has changed in a bad way, and reports back if there’s something wrong.

How to Secure Your WordPress Installation. This is an excellent article, that goes into great detail about this subject.

13 Vital Tips and Hacks to Protect Your WordPress Admin Area

Protect Your Admin folder in WordPress by Limiting Access in .htaccess If you really want to get fancy, here’s something else to look at.

I have noticed that it’s very handy to use the QuickPress panel in the WordPress Dashboard (the page you land on when you login to WordPress), to quickly add post ideas, as they come to me. I can then flesh them out later, and not lose them.

It’s very quick to add things here, and you just click Save Draft to save the idea without having it go public.