Security issue on wp_

  • I would like to change the wp_ but will this mess up all my article posts I’ve already published on my site? I want people to still be able to link to an article they find in the search engines from past published posts.

    I have had a visitor coming in (I have visitors plugin) and can see that they are trying to get into my files (I think). They use the path wp_content/plugin/….and so on.

    I was reading that you can change wp_ to anything you want. I read all that was available on subject but can you let me know if this is safe to be changing this and where I go to do it. I’d rather go to bluehost to do it there if its safe.

    I’m just getting concerned about hackers. Also, had to delete my google analyticator and wpstats.com because both suddenly quit working for no reason. Another stats plugin is working good.

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  • I was reading that you can change wp_ to anything you want.

    That’s the database table names – not the folder names such as wp-content or wp-include. Change one of those and your site will stop working.

    Note… not just table names, but also references to the wp_ names in the data in the tables (though I’m still unclear if it is all, or some, etc. I have a lot more wp_ occurrences in my DB than most of the web instructions for changing the prefix indicate).

    But, esmi is correct that this a very different thing than the filenames and folder names of the wordpress files. Those, you don’t want to change. I’d recommend doing a google search on something like ‘changing wp_ prefix for wordpress’, and read some of the articles. One good page I ran across is:
    https://guvnr.com/web/blogging/10-tips-to-make-wordpress-hack-proof/

    However, I ran into issues after changing the prefix… so you should be cautious on that step… have backups, etc.

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