Harden WordPress and Never Update Again!

I’ll start by saying that this is my goal. I really don’t know how to achieve this yet. So don’t take the title literally. My previous post I mentioned that my sites got malware and I think WordPress is the main culprit. I’ve yet to figure out what could of caused it. I also claimed that I was going to take this site and make it static. As you can see, it hasn’t changed. The big reason for this is that the site is just too big to go static. I don’t make anything with this site, so there really isn’t any incentive to put time into it.

I don’t have any particular beef with WordPress. I like the way it works and it is easy. The problems revolve around security. You have to keep WordPress up to date and the honest truth is that I don’t look at some of my sites for quite a period of time. The only real thing that I want is a commenting system on this site because I like to have people comment. I could develop something in PHP to allow me to create a completely static HTML page with my content and implement a commenting system at the bottom. This is really just too much work for me. So the plan now is to really just harden WordPress. I’m not to a point where I can just not update it. I wish I was, but I’m not. I want to get to that place.

So I’ll keep you posted and hopefully I can come up with something that is quite hardened and I can leave for quite sometime.