Do You Still Have Admin User ?

Posted by : Dexter Panganiban | ; Filed Under Wordpress

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Do You Still Have Admin User ? Well I have read it somewhere that retaining Admin user in your Wordpress Blogs increase the chance of your blog being Hacked, since most of the hackers will try to use the admin username and just make a random of your password.

So just a reminder change it now or suffer later.

You can actually make a new username with administrator power and then later delete the admin user.

You have also to transfer the post to the new user and not delete it with the user. Again transfer the post and not to delete it. When you are about to delete your Admin User you will be asked if you want to delete the post or associate it with other user. So you just have to associate it with other user.

Always make a very hard password preferably with numbers to protect your Blogs.

Steps :

Make A New user and make it as an Administrator of the blog.
Log out and click Tool >> Clear Private Date .. ( This is to clear the cache )
Log in with your new username
Delete the Admin user name and be sure to attribute all post and links to your new username ..
or you can set the admin to subscriber so he cannot do anything about your blog. It is still up to you.

Hopes this helps you to protect you blog from hackers.

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Dexter Panganiban : Dexter is a techie person that also blogs at his Personal Blog " Dexter Panganiban Site ", He is a Mechanical Engineer by Profession. He loves Search Engine Optimization and Making Money Online

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16 Responses to “Do You Still Have Admin User ?”

jheLo on March 10th, 2009 3:28 am

This is what I am doing to avoid being hacked and as much as possible if I’m going to have additional writers, I’ll just make them as editors.

btw, Kuya Dexter.. buti ka pa showy ang Kontera sa blog mo, sa akin seldom lang mag-appear ang link ads from Kontera unlike Infolinks..

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Dexter | Tech At Hand Dot Net Reply:
March 10th, 2009 at 6:09 am
@jheLo,

Great that you are now doing it. Well actually kontera is better than infolinks at my case. although I have not yet tried infolinks in this blog. Maybe after I get the 2nd payment. It is now about $50 . I think 3 mos more

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Chai on March 16th, 2009 7:42 pm

I’m just a newbie in using wordpress, thanks for the info Mr. Panganiban.. It’s good. I’ll follow what you impart.

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Dexter Panganiban Reply:
March 16th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
@Chai,

No Problem Chai. It would be better to call Dex or dexter.. Mr. Panganiban is too formal .
Just let me know thru contacts if I can help you in anyway with regards to wordpress. Or if there is any that you want me to feature at this site

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Erick on March 22nd, 2009 2:19 pm

Hi Dex,
Yes same here a newbie in using WP. Is it to be edited in Users?
Thanks

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Dexter Panganiban Reply:
March 22nd, 2009 at 11:28 pm
@Erick,

Yes it can be seen in users.. You have to add new as administrator.

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ark on March 26th, 2009 5:52 am

Followed this tip from macuha.com. Great! Thanks!

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Dexter Panganiban Reply:
March 26th, 2009 at 8:06 am
@ark,

Welcome to my Humble Blog

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itot on March 26th, 2009 12:11 pm

napalitan ko na din sa wakas yan admin.thanks!

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Dexter Panganiban Reply:
March 27th, 2009 at 1:07 am
@itot,
Great mahirap na baka maisahan tayo ng mga hackers

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Cyril Pauya on March 27th, 2009 6:28 am

After installing my new wordpress blog, I added another user with admin privileges to my new blog and used that since. I did not remove the admin account however. After reading your post, I changed the admin account’s role to “None”.

Thank you for sharing this.

ps: I read about your link from macuha.com

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Dexter Panganiban Reply:
March 27th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
@Cyril Pauya,

Great that you learn something from this blog and great that Marhgil send some visitors to this blog

Hope you like your stay and browsing in this blog

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darlyn on March 30th, 2009 5:08 pm

I am still using my admin account without thinking the possibilities my site will be hacked.. but good thing i read your post…

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Dexter Panganiban Reply:
April 1st, 2009 at 1:33 am
@darlyn,
Great that you do some changes about it

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crisiboy on May 14th, 2009 11:08 am

thanks for your tips dex..just newbie in blogging hope i could learn a lot from u soon..

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Dexter Reply:
May 14th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
@crisiboy,
welcome to my blog don’t hesitate to contact me ,, I will for sure reply.. it might be thru post or an email from me

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