You might even tell your local media contacts the way
the national breaking news impacts the city locally..

I’ve come to realize that many Bitcoin merchants, exchanges and projects all tend to follow a criteria – 1) boostrap 2) cloudflare 3) wordpress (for blog). Don’t get me wrong, this setup works but what does not work are default installations with no security hardening.Many of these setups are done automatically through control panels, and use installation scripts made to automate the entire process. What happens next is a slew of bugs will come to haunt you as your site grows and gets broader attention.

Your first step to hardening WordPress is to make sure your setup is completely updated. This goes for themes, and plugins as well. Since the team over at WordPress have invested a lot of time into securing their base project they’ve been plagued indirectly through theme and plugin vulnerabilities.

Only install themes and plugins you will actually use. Remove those that you will not use. Even disabled extensions remain in their respective directories and can still remain an attack vector to your operation.

Hardening your Web Server (Apache)
It is important to note that hardening your web server entails a few small changes and despite the inconvenience of having to modify configuration files, the end goal is legit – securing your infrastructure.

Hardening PHP
Although PHP is a very useful and powerful language it is not without faults – especially by default. Hardening its configuration requires locating your php.ini file