One of the most important things you can do to ensure the security of your WordPress blog is to stay up to date with the latest versions of the popular blogging platform. These updates provide a series of patches to address security flaws and other bugs. However, there are countless other things you can do to thwart hackers and other people who may be trying to get into your WordPress dashboard.

Most WordPress users know that you can access the administration area of a WordPress blog by adding “/wp-admin/” or “wp-login.php” to the end of a blog’s domain. This can make it easier for hackers to guess your password and gain entry to the dashboard. To overcome this concern, Stealth Login can hide that login path, allowing you to define a custom URL where you can log into your WordPress dashboard.

For example, you could log in through “http://www.example.com/mycustomlogin” rather than through “http://www.example.com/wp-login.php.” If someone were to go to the latter and you have the Stealth Login WordPress plugin installed and activated, they would not be given the opportunity to enter a username or password. This plugin can also create custom slugs for logging out and registering.

To get more information on Stealth Login and to download the free WordPress plugin, head over to the WordpPress.org plugin repository.