If you have a WordPress blog or website, WordPress security must be an issue for you. I'm sure you must have heard about hackers attacking blogs and websites of other people. The damage done by them can be enormous, especially when the particular blog was high page ranked, displaying high in search engines and profitable. It is not the only type of websites attacked by hackers. The reasoning behind their acts can't be explained as logical. They will destroy it for fun. I know stories of people who one day, instead of their website saw a short note informing them that their website has been blocked by Google due to the thread it carries to other internet users. It was a result of hacker attack, who made changes to the website.
I back up my blogs regularly using a free plugin WP DB Backup. If anything happens I will restore my website to the settings. I use my site to be scanned by WP Security Scan plugin frequently and WordPress Firewall to block requests that are suspicious-looking to fix malware problem.
Should your website's server go down for will go with this. You will make no sales, get signups or no traffic to your website, until you get the website back up 32, and in short, you are out of business.
Exclude pages - This plugin adds a checkbox,"include this page in menus", which can be checked by default. If you uncheck it, the page will not appear in any listings of pages (which includes, and is usually limited to, your page navigation menus).
Note that you should try this last step for setups. You'll also need to change the table names inside the database if you would like to get it done for existing installations.
There are always going to be risks being online why not find out more (or even just being alive!) And it's easy to get caught up in the panic. We often put the breaks on, As soon as we get caught up in the panic. This isn't a good response. Just take some common sense precautions, then forge ahead. If something does happen, it will need to be addressed then and no amount of quaking in your boots before-hand will have helped. If nothing does, go to my blog all is good and you haven't made yourself sick with worry.