{"id":2015,"date":"2011-05-04T05:27:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T09:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2011-05-01T20:41:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T00:41:22","slug":"change-the-name-on-your-wordpress-admin-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2011\/05\/04\/change-the-name-on-your-wordpress-admin-file\/","title":{"rendered":"Change the Name on Your WordPress Admin File"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a cool plug-in to help you monitor, change, and keep up-dated your WordPress blog administration names. It is called Admin Renamer Extended<\/a>. You may ask why not just use the WordPress control panel to update your admin names? Sometimes a hacker will hide the admin name from you to keep you from deleting their access. This renaming plug-in allows you to update, see, and change the administrative names for your WordPress account.<\/p>\n

It is interesting to know that many blogs are set up with the name admin and lame passwords making their blog easy to hack. By default WordPress calls your main login simply admin. I recommend a much more difficult user name such as a combination of words and certainly a secure password with letters and number. I don’t recommend that you use your business name as the administrators name.<\/p>\n

Try to make your administrator login complicated for others to guess and easy for you to remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a cool plug-in to help you monitor, change, and keep up-dated your WordPress blog administration names. It is called Admin Renamer Extended. You may ask why not just use the WordPress control panel to update your admin names? Sometimes a hacker will hide the admin name from you to keep you from deleting their access. This renaming plug-in allows you to update, see, and change the administrative names for your WordPress account. It is interesting to know that many blogs are set up with the name admin and lame passwords making their blog easy to hack. By default WordPress calls your main login simply admin. I recommend a much more difficult user name such as a combination of words and certainly a secure password with letters and number. I don’t recommend that you use your business name as the administrators name. 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