WordPress is the most popular and widely used website content management platform out there, with a market share estimated by some to be over 60%. Website owners (or those responsible for maintaining their insurance WordPress websites) can and should manage user access to tasks such as writing and editing, page creation. Category creation, comment moderation, plugin and theme management, user management by assigning specific roles to all users.
Predefined WordPress roles:
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highest supervisor
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Administrator
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editor
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author
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contributor
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Attendees
role definitions
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Super Admin: Allows access to all site-wide administration and functions. This role should be heavily restricted as it is the most powerful and allows the user to make major site changes.
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Admin: Not as powerful as the Super Admin, but still has access to all administrative functions within a single site.
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Editor: Allows users to publish and manage posts, including those of other users.
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Author: Allows the user to publish and manage their own posts.
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Contributor: Allows the author to write and manage their own posts, but doesn’t allow them to publish the content.
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Subscriber: Read-only access that allows the user to review content and manage their profile.
Leveraging the power of user access helps ensure a more secure WordPress site. Let’s start by discussing roles and responsibilities. Each assigned user role enables the performance of a set of tasks called skills. There are many features, some examples include publishing posts, moderating comments, and editing users. Standard capabilities are preassigned to each role, but other capabilities can be assigned or removed, allowing for the creation of custom user roles. Better control and refinement of user roles will improve overall website security and limit the user errors that can lead to security breaches.
Website owners can also harden their WordPress websites using permission modes. For example, permissions can determine who and what can read, write, change, and access directories and files. This is important as WordPress may need access to write to files in your wp-content directory for the website to function properly.
FTP access is another area that needs to be addressed to improve website security. For example, if you need a third party to modify your site or customize a plugin, they may need FTP access. However, you don’t have to give them full access to your website’s root directory. Restrict access to the specific area they are working on, e.g. B. the directory of the topic. Provide support logs when needed instead of allowing FTP access to the logs on your site. And make sure the FTP access and password are time limited and expire in a week or two (as short as possible).
Following these WordPress best practices will help ensure a more secure insurance agency website, apply greater user role restrictions, and limit website access.
