When we install WordPress using any method, manual or fantastico. Most of the time password and username is machine generated. The default username is admin and this adds a security risk to your wordpress blog. Hackers can use brute force attack to take down your wordpress blog.
So this is a security tip which every one should follow. Once you login to your wordpress panel after first installation, and if your username is machine generated (i.e admin) , create a new user , use your secondary email ID to create a new user, give admin rights to new user.
Login to your wordpress panel using the new user profile you have created and delete the previous username. This whole step hardly takes 3-5 minutes, but this will ensure the safety and security of your WordPress blog.
Are you still using your wordpress blog as username admin ?
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this tip comes handy and improves security of the blog..
Pretty important to change ‘admin’ whenever possible not only for WP but for any tool.
This is the first thing that must change and it’s so important as all new blogs/sites will have it set to admin. Would be nice if WP could make it part of the install to add a username and make it check that it’s not ‘admin’.
Thanks a lot for this nice tip , i did deleted my admin user now.
How about this one?
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/admin-renamer-extended/
Nice tip