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By Jeff Cohan, March 10, 2014

Don’t use the admin username in WordPress

Last updated April 3rd, 2014 at 04:17 pm

If you think all the advice not to use the "admin" username in WordPress is unnecessary, take a look at this screen capture. It’s a small section of results from the Wordfence Logins and Logouts Live Traffic report for the WordPress site of one of our clients. (The site does not have an admin user, and its Wordfence options are set to lock out invalid usernames and to prevent users from registering the admin username if it doesn’t exist.)

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PS: The reason I installed Wordfence was to clean up a hacked WordPress site and thwart future ones. It did the trick. Had I relied solely on my own efforts to address the issue, I would have been an old man before I found the cause and the solution. (Okay, I am an old man. I would have been a very old man.)

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