I have had two WordPress blogs. That was at a time when I was doing virtually no online advertising, and until I found time to handle the situation (weeks later), these sites were penalized at the major search engines. They were not eliminated, however the evaluations were reduced.
By default, the newest version of WordPress is pretty darn secure. Anything that might have been added to any secure your wordpress website plugins has been considered by the development team of WordPress . In the past , WordPress did have holes but most of them are filled up.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that your hosting company will have your back so far as WordPress backups go. Not always. While they say that they do, it's been my experience that the company may or may not be doing backups. Take that kind of chance?
Fortunately, keeping your WordPress website up-to-date is one weblink of the simplest things you can do. For the past couple of versions, the ability to set up automatic updates has been included by WordPress. Not only that, but websites are notified every time a new update becomes available.
Note that this step for setups should try. You need to change all the table names within the database, if you would like to get it done for installations.
However, I advise that you install the Login LockDown plugin in place of any.htaccess controls. This will stop login requests from being permitted from a click here to read specific IP address for one hour after three unsuccessful login attempts. If you do that, you may access your panel while away from your office, and yet you still have great protection against hackers.