As well as securing your web site
Admintools for WordPress comes with
several tools to help you configure
nd optimize your web site.
You can find them in the tools section
of the control panel.
The first of these can be found in
WordPress Tools.
A salt is used to encrypt passwords
and it is recommended that
you periodically update these
by clicking here.
You will be logged out and then you will
need to log back in to continue.
Next is password expiration.
By default a password will
last forever but if you want
ou can force the user to change their
password after a set number of days
by setting a value here
and then selecting which roles to
apply this to. In my
case I have set it to require all
Administrator and Editors to
change their password every 60 days.
Now we have some advanced options.
The first of these are for your posts.
Here you can change the default values
for autosaving, revisions,
automatically emptying the trash
and cleaning up after image edits.
You can find out more about these
options by hovering on the title.
Now we have some system settings.
These are mainly tools that will let you
see any coding errors on your site
and you should only enable them when you are building
the site. And never leave them on
when your site is live.
To apply any changes made on
this page click on the orange button
and a wp-config file will be
created with the settings.
If you have upgraded your site to use
https then you have two very useful tools.
The first of these will change all your links
to be the secure https
instead of the original http.
This is optional and you should be aware
that even external links will be changed
to use https.
The second option will change your entire
site configuration to use https
and this is highly recommended.
Over time your Database tables
can benefit by being optimised.
If you click here then this will be performed for you.
Finally we have a tool to ensure
that your file and directory permissions
are set to the correct, secure values.
Here we can configure the default permissions
and by clicking on the orange
Save and Apply button these permissions
will be applied.
Now that you have saved the defaults
you can fix the permissions on your
entire site at any time in the future
by just clicking on the Fix permissions
button on the control panel.