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Hiding Installed Plugins For Security Reason
Do you know that we can see the lists of what plugins have been installed in our wordpress blo? Visitors can see them all by accessing http://www.wpblogname.com/wp-content/plugins. There’s a nice tips I’ve just read and it’s very simple to implement.
Log in to your blog cpanel and upload a blank file named index.php or index.html into your plugins directory. The blank file may contain some code like this:
<?php
?>
Don’t forget to save the file as index.php or index.html. From now on, when someone try to access the URL above, they will see only a blank page, nothing will be displayed. This tip is for security reason only. So, people won’t see what plugins are installed.
There’s also a good idea to redirect it to our blog homepage, then the code will be like this:
<?php
header(”Location:http://www.wpblogname.com/”);
?>
If you want some more privacy, you can also upload this file into wp-content/themes and wp-content/uploads directory with the same results. I’ve found this in a few professional wordpress blogs. We can see the list of themes installed under the themes folder and a list of uploaded files under uploads folder. It’s not a good thing to show it to everyone, right.
That’s all.
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I didn’t think of PHP code for my example..
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August 25th, 2008 at 1:04 amYup, thanks for the post. I also didn’t think about that hole.
August 25th, 2008 at 1:30 amGood tip. I try to email people when I see a folder showing it’s innerds like that.
I have preached putting an index file in folders but every once in a while I catch myself forgetting to do it so I am glad when I get contacted letting me know I missed it.
Keep the tips comin’
August 27th, 2008 at 12:58 amThanks for the feedback James.
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