How to Make WordPress Faster and More Secure

Posted on 29. Nov, 2008 by Julius.

Making WordPress Faster A lot of people are using WordPress these days. Of course this is not a surprise considering that WordPress is a great software that is easy to set up and maintain. Bloggers are especially fond of it but also commercial websites are starting to use it.

Even though it is very popular few people know steps to make it work better. So how do you use WordPress more efficiently?

There is actually only one simple step you have to take to make WordPress both faster and more secure.

Add a New User with Editor privileges

Note: It does not have to be an editor account
This might not yet make sense to you but I am going to explain to you why it should.

Maybe you are one of the people who are constantly using WordPress by logging in as admin. I used to do that too but it does not make sense. Adding a new user with Editor rights and using this account makes much more sense. Just consider the following few points.

First of all using an account with lower privileges makes WordPress much more secure. Why is that? Because if someone were to take over your editor account he could not damage much. But think of the implications of someone hijacking your admin account! The intruder would have complete control over your blog. Because of these security issues it is much more advisable to use an account with lower privileges. By using a different account you could still login as administrator and administer your blog.

Another advantage of using an editor account is that it greatly reduces the load on the database. How could the use of an lower privileged account create less load? Well for starters the lower your rights on WordPress the fewer options you have in the administration section. Because as an editor you can only write posts, manage them and change comments WordPress does not have to put much load on the database. You will see yourself that using an account with few rights makes WordPress respond a lot faster.

I hope this makes sense to you. If it doesn’t just give it a try and see for yourself.

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