Your WordPress engine should be up and running in about five-minutes (famously). A few more moments of fine-tuning the settings will boost its security and SEO.
Security thru obscurity (“Hardening WP“)
- Before install: Makes it hard for evilbots to peek at your underthings. Pick a non-obvious directory name for WP dirs/files. When you unzip WP the resulting folder is named: :
/wordpress. Rename that dir or move is contents to another dir. - During install: use non-obvious database table prefixes. In file:
wp-config.php, change defaultwp_to something stronger, like:$table_prefix = 'wp_5hYn_';
- After install: WP auto-creates a first user named
admin. That would be an evilbot’s first guess. So create a new user w/ role:Administrator; log out. Log in as this 2nd user; then delete default user named:admin. (Note: WP3 beta-install allows you to name the first user, so this task isn’t necessary: just don’t use name “admin.”