How to protect your WordPress website from brute force attacks

We can reduce the chance of being attacked and compromised through the following three steps:

1. Add the following code to the current functions.php to remove WordPress Version information to reduce the chance of being scanned.

remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_generator');

2. The default user name should not be admin. Modify the admin user name through SQL.

UPDATE wp_users SET user_login = 'newuser' WHERE user_login =  'admin';

3. Install the Limit Login Attempts plug-in to limit the number of login attempts and prevent the backend password from being obtained through exhaustive methods.

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