Sure, there are plenty of WordPress plugins out there that can help connect your blog with your social media channels. There are also plugins that help to jazz up your blog’s appearance. However, one of the most overlooked areas on any blog is security.

Helping to keep your blog as safe as possible from hackers and other malicious attacks, you might want to install the WordPress Exploit Scanner. This plugin does exactly what its name says that it does: it scans for exploits in your WordPress installation.

Using this plugin, you can search through all the files and databases of your website. It will look for signs of suspicious activity and tell you if it finds anything worth noting. The plugin won’t necessarily stop someone from hacking into your site, but it will help you find any uploaded or compromised files left by the hacker.

You can download WordPress Exploit Scanner for free from ocaoimh.ie. The newest version was just updated recently to support WordPress 3.0.3.