How to Limit Dashboard Access in WordPress | Linux Today

How to Limit Dashboard Access in WordPress

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Jan 29, 2018

In today’s tutorial, we’ll show you, How to Limit Dashboard Access in WordPress. WordPress is the most popular CMS in the world and is used to power over 60% of all websites using a CMS.

With WordPress being so popular, WordPress sites are the most popular target for hackers who want to exploit the WordPress security vulnerabilities. To minimize the chances of your WordPress site being hacked, you should restrict access to the WordPress admin dashboard area and update the WordPress core, plugins and themes as soon as updates are available. Limiting the access to the WordPress admin area will help you to mitigate many common security threats.

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