Finally, installing the secure your wordpress website Scan plugin will check most of this for you, and alert you that you might have missed. Additionally, it will tell you that a user named"admin" exists. That is your administrative user name. If you wish you can follow a link and find directions for changing that title. Personally, I think that a password is enough security that is good, and there you can try these out have been no attacks on the sites that I run, because I followed those steps.
I might find it somewhat harder to crack your password if you're among the ones that are proactive. But if you're among the reactive ones, I might just get you.
Before you can delete the default admin account, you need to create a user with administrator rights. To do this go to your WordPress Dashboard and click on User -> Create New User. Then enter all the information you will need to enter.
What's the best way? Out of all of the check this site out choices that are available right now, which one is right for you and which route should you choose?
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