Secure Your WordPress Site Without Bursting into Tears: Deleting the Admin Account
2010 June 21
Welcome to the very first installment of Secure Your WordPress Site Without Bursting into Tears!
In this video we’re going to get rid of the admin account. In versions prior to 3.0, WordPress automatically created a user account named “admin.” Most site owners never change this, so hackers can take advantage of only having to crack the password instead of both the password and the user name.
In version 3.0, during installation you can now specify your very own username.
So now for the video!
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Awesome idea for a video series! One thing I found with WPMU [not sure if it's true with 3.0] is that you have to be careful not to delete the super user because then you won’t be able to manage all the sites. Still confused about that. Are you familiar with that? Maybe I misunderstood.
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I’m not too sure about WPMU. I’ll dig a little to find out. But since 3.0 allows you to choose a user name at install I don’t think it’ll be much of an issue anymore.
I’ll get back to you on that one.
RE: WPMU…
DO NOT delete your superadmin. Just make sure you use a really secure password.
WordPress 3.0, however, doesn’t automatically name the admin account, even with the Multi-Site option activated. So going forward, this will not be an issue. Just don’t use “admin” as your admin user name