Where Your Login Page/Admin Area Is Located

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The reason this could be a security risk, is that people might target your site for no other reason than that it is built on WordPress. If someone finds a security weakness in the WordPress core, a theme or plugin, they might find their way to your site to exploit that. Whereas if you had successfully hidden that your site was built with WordPress, people who search for WordPress sites using bots or crawlers would be tricked into thinking that your site was not a viable target.

How to fix it:
To fix this, you can use the Hide My WP Plugin. With this helpful little plugin you can avoid unnecessary traffic  Country Email List on your server, and at the same time, remain safe from attacks that specifically target WordPress sites.
If you’re still showing that you use WordPress (aka, not actively hiding it by for example using a plugin like Hide My WP), people with bad intentions will already know where to attempt a brute-force attack on your site.





How to fix it:
To fix this threat, and drastically lower the chances of getting hacked, and to reduce server stress, we need to stop malicious people and bots from reaching our login page.

There are two main ways to do this. You can either change the physical location of your login page to something else by using a plugin (or a few lines of code), or you can limit the access to your login page and admin area by IP addresses. You can do this with a plugin dedicated to this particular thing, or with a security plugin like Sucuri, Wordfence, Solid Security Pro or All In One WP Security & Firewall.