Comments on: Why You Shouldn’t Use The WordPress Admin Account

By: sean

sean — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:27:40 +0000

I've always used a friendly name. I luckily have not had any problems to this point. I'm always amazed when people use the generic admin. How impersonal.

I think the most important point you made is the loss of Google rankings. As blog writers we our voice to be heard by as many as possible. Those rankings need to be protected at all cost. After all they were not easy to come by.

By: Ray Simon

Ray Simon — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:31:15 +0000

Another tip I would suggest to prevent your site from being hacked is to not save your username and password in your browser. I had the "Indonesian Hacker Team" Hack my site and they destroyed it. My hosting provider told me that they infiltrated through my browser where I had my username and password stored. Needless to say I never store this info in my browser anymore. I will take your advice regarding the admin account.
Thanks
Ray
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By: Jamison

Jamison — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:54:08 +0000

You would think that over time the problem would be getting better, but instead it's getting worse.

More security is good. And yes, I've been using the admin account to post on my blogs. I just dread the job of going in a changing it now on each one.

Can someone tell me why people feel led to do this destructive stuff?

- J

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miracle mineral solution — Fri, 27 May 2011 09:20:07 +0000

Just looking around some blogs. I am also a web designer.

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Comfort Bike Reviews — Fri, 27 May 2011 01:14:55 +0000

Wow, thanks for this. More security is never a bad thing.

By: Mike - 2gts

Mike - 2gts — Thu, 26 May 2011 14:12:33 +0000

I didn't realise that using the admin account was such a big problem. I've been posting as admin on all my wordpress sites, guess I was a little lazy about changing it. Can't say i've had any problems with viruses yet, but i'll change them anyway to be safe. Thanks.

By: Jessi

Jessi — Thu, 26 May 2011 05:10:09 +0000

Hi Jared, Thanks for this very helpful post. I've been researching ways to make my WordPress blogs more secure after one of my friend's sites got hacked and it was just a big mess. Reading about the admin account is definitely a wake-up call for me, since I have been using the admin account on all my sites.

Btw do you of any tool or easy way to scan your website for hidden text, like you mentioned. It's pretty scary to have all these spam links on your site without knowing and I was wondering if there is any way to detect this kind of spam early before getting dropped from Google?
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By: Fran

Fran — Mon, 09 May 2011 12:03:22 +0000

Interesting post Jared, i didn't think about the use of the admin post like that, i only have a couple of sites like that (ones i have been lazy with) but i will be changing them asap. Cheers!

By: Jared

Jared — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:06:32 +0000

Funny you should ask. I just may have what you need and have posted it as a new snippet here http://new2wp.com/snippet/find-users-by-role-wordpress/

Hope that helps! :)