Delete original WP admin account for additional security

Posted on June 9, 2008 | Filed Under WordPress

Have you recently had your WordPress installation hacked?  Did the hackers fill your theme files with link spam?  If so, you might have spent some time doing an upgrade and clean install of WordPress.  As part of this process, you probably also changed the password you use to login to WordPress.

I had this problem a few months ago and found that changing my password was not enough.  One additional step to fully secure your blog is to delete the original admin account.  If you don’t, it’s probably only a matter of time before you are re-hacked.

By deleting the “admin” login, …

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