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Are you looking for the best WordPress backup plugins for your website? If the answer is yes, we’re here to help!

In today’s digital landscape, there are lurking chances that you might encounter sudden, unfortunate data loss.

To secure your WordPress login page, limit login attempts, add CAPTCHA, enforce strong passwords, change the login URL and turn on two-factor authentication. Those five steps stop most brute force and bot attacks, and the other eight practices below close the remaining gaps.

To change your WordPress theme without losing content, back up your site, install and activate the new theme in Appearance > Themes, then test responsiveness and update menus and widgets. Your posts and pages stay, but code added to the old theme does not carry over.

You can add Google Fonts to WordPress in three ways: with LoginPress Pro in the Customizer, by downloading and uploading the font manually, or through a WordPress theme that supports Google Fonts.

In this post, I will show you each method, plus Google Fonts that work well for digital publications.

To add social login to WordPress, install LoginPress Pro, activate the Social Login add-on, create an app with each platform (such as Google or Facebook) to get its keys, and paste those keys into the add-on’s settings. Your login and registration forms then show “Log in with Google”-style buttons.

In this guide, I set up Facebook, X (Twitter), Google and LinkedIn login step by step. The add-on supports 15 platforms in total, including Microsoft, Apple and GitHub.

You can customize the WordPress login page without code by installing LoginPress and changing the logo, background, colors and form styles in the WordPress Customizer, with a live preview as you go. A custom login page makes your site look professional and keeps your branding consistent from the first click.

This guide walks through each LoginPress setting to check first, step by step.

Your WordPress login URL is usually yoursite.com/wp-admin or yoursite.com/wp-login.php. If WordPress is installed in a subfolder, add the folder name (for example, yoursite.com/blog/wp-login.php). If someone changed the login URL with a security plugin, you’ll find the new address in that plugin’s settings.

In this guide, I cover every way to find your login URL, plus how to fix the most common problems that stop people at the login page.

You can change the WordPress login logo in two ways: with the free LoginPress plugin, where you upload your logo in the Customizer and see it live, or with a short code snippet in your theme’s functions.php file. The plugin method takes about two minutes and needs no code.

This post shows both methods step by step, plus how to change where the logo links to.

To change your WordPress password, use the Lost Password link on the login page, or go to Users > Profile in the dashboard and set a new password. If you are locked out, use phpMyAdmin, an SQL statement, WP-CLI or FTP.

This guide shows you all six ways, plus tips for creating a strong password.

You redirect users after a successful login in WordPress with the LoginPress Login Redirects add-on, which sets a destination per user or per role. WordPress sends everyone to the dashboard by default, which suits admins but not customers or members.