Is [admin / admin] acceptable for all local websites?

As @montrealist says, using an insecure username and password combination on a local webserver installation that is not publicly accessible is not necessarily a security concern. If the server is publicly accessible, a secure username and password should be used of course.

How to protect wp-admin through .htaccess?

Basically, it should look like this: AuthType Basic AuthName NAME_THIS_THING AuthUserFile PATH_TO_USER_FILE <Files ‘*’> Require valid-user </Files> <Files ‘admin-ajax.php’> Allow from all Satisfy any </Files> Replace the upper case parts with something real. admin-ajax.php is the only file that should be available without restriction. The details of the user file are a little bit out … Read more

Secure Pages Best Practice

Not sure about the best practices, but I have a few custom login-sensitive pages which simply display a message if user is not logged and is trying to view the page directly: $logged_in = is_user_logged_in(); if($logged_in) { ?> <article id=”post”> <?php the_content(); ?> </article> <?php } else { _e(‘You are not logged in. Please ‘, … Read more

The safest way to automate WordPress backups

(Partial answer as I’m familiar with AWS, not Google Drive.) Having a WordPress DB stored somewhere on a cloud service is, in my opinion, no worse that hosting the site on a virtual or cloud server (given virtualisation platforms all allow you to reset the server’s root password – albeit typically with a reboot – … Read more

Hata!: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'divattrend_liink'@'localhost' (using password: YES)