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I see a comprehensive (step by step how-to) blog post being pretty popular around here. I know it's a topic that many are interested in. Many, like myself, are reluctant to mess with the core WordPress files, especially the file permissions.

Any step-by-step guide would get a lot of visitors!

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Hi Bill,

First off, thanks for the info and detail. Can you expand on #4...changing your user archive URLs? What exactly does that mean?

I had one of my sites hacked a couple weeks ago. I think they called it an "injection?" Basically, there was some malicious code inserted into the wp-includes folder that inserted some funky meta descriptions on the pages. This caused the Google search descriptions to alter. Does the 6 steps you described cover this type of hack?

Thanks for your input Bill...I know I appreciate anything you can contribute.

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I'm interested as to your preferred plugin as well. I've used Better WP Security in the past. But I've had a lot of problems with 403 errors resulting out of the plugin messing with my .htaccess.

Any other plugins that provide a "total solution" whether free or paid?

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