WordPress 5 Cookbook

How it works...

We started the recipe by looking at the Dashboard of this plugin. The plugin uses several criteria that contribute to the security of a site and provides a points system so that we can measure the security of the site. Currently, it has 515 points separated across the features. Among these features, there are four critical criteria provided by the plugin:

• Admin username: We already discussed the importance of removing default usernames and assigning complex usernames in the Securing user accounts recipe. In this site, the admin username is a custom value with letters and numbers and hence the plugin shows it as enabled, giving full points.
• Login lockdown: We already looked at this feature in one of the previous recipes. In ...