14 Important Tips to Protect Your WordPress Admin Area (Updated)

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A firewall monitors website traffic and prevents suspicious requests from reaching your website.

While there are several WordPress firewall plugins , such as Wordfence, we recommend using Sucuri , which is a website security and monitoring service that provides a cloud-based firewall to protect your website.

Website Application Firewall
All your website traffic first passes through the Sucuri Cloud Proxy, which analyzes each request and blocks suspicious requests from reaching your website. This protects your website from possible hacking attempts, phishing, malware, and other malicious activities.

Another great option is Cloudflare, which we now use on list of venezuela cell phone number WPBeginner. For more details, see our article on why we switched from Sucuri to Cloudflare .

2. Password protection for the WordPress administration directory
Your WordPress admin area is already protected by your WordPress password, but adding password protection to your WordPress admin directory adds another layer of security to your login page.

First, you need to log into your WordPress web hosting cPanel dashboard and then click on the “Password Protected Directories” or “Directory Protection” icon.

Directory privacy
Next, you need to select your wp-admin folder, which is usually located in the /public_html/ directory.

On the next screen, you need to check the box next to the “Password protect this directory” option and provide a name for the protected directory.