Amazingly, lots of WordPress Web sites are still using default \"admin\" user name for the admin log in. After WordPress 3.0, you may choose a hard to guess admin user name. If your WordPress site was created before that, you may go to your phpMyAdmin and the 'wp-users' table to change 'admin' to a new user name of your choice.<\/p>\n
The bottom line is<\/p>\n
Also try to use a longer ( more than 10 characters long) user name for your WordPress admin account.<\/p>\n
Another tip related to this is: <\/p>\n
Even with WordPress 3.1, the default setting is still \"showing log in error\" when you type in a wrong user name. This makes it convenient for users who really forget their user name or password, but it also gives too much information for hackers.<\/p>\n
A trick to prevent the log in error to be displayed is to insert this simple line of code in the functions.php at your current theme folder (e.g. wp-content\/themes\/twentyten )<\/p>\n
add_filter('login_errors',create_function('$a', \"return null;\"));<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Remember to backup your functions.php file so you can roll-back the change in case you do it wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"