**Do not do this unless you are comfortable with PHPMyAdmin and making changes to MySQL – if not, ask someone to do it for you

**Back up your database

For some people the database table name prefix changing functionality of WP Security Scan doesn’t work. In that case you may use the following instructions to change it manually.

1. backup your wordpress database to a sql file (you can use phpmyadmin)
2. open that *.sql file (make another copy first) using text editor, then find and replace all “wp_” prefix to “something_”.
3. now, drop all tables of your wordpress databases (don’t drop the database)
4. import the *.sql file which has been edited before into your wordpress databases.
5. and lastly, edit your wp-config.php file and change the $table_prefix = ‘wp_’; to $table_prefix = ‘something_’;
6. you may find that your plugins are deactivated automatically when this happens, so you’ll want to activate them again if that’s the case… I’d recommend deactivating them prior to doing this anyway as a precaution.

more info to come

More info to come.

**Do not do this unless you are comfortable with PHPMyAdmin and making changes to MySQL – if not, ask someone to do it for you

**Back up your database

One common security vulnerability in WordPress is User Enumeration, in which an attacker enumerates a valid WordPress user account in order to launch brute force (password guessing) attacks. In order to help deter this type of attack, you should change your admin username to something harder to guess.

To change your admin username, open your web host’s MySQL administration tool (probably phpmyadmin) and browse to your WordPress database. Locate the users table, in which you will find a user_login column. One of the rows will have admin in the field. Change this to something else.

***Please note: you will still need a strong password. It is reccommended that you use the password tools in the WP Security Scan plugin.