I have completed my quest for 2FA greatness. A little plugin called WP 2FA (with some settings turned off and and linked to Authenticator – which I already use for another service) on my phone has done the job nicely. The way WP 2FA connected with Authenticator and passed the authentication token was slick as ninepence. So I’ve just spent a happy 10 minutes installing WP 2FA on a half-dozen other websites and forcing it to be mandatory for all users (no matter what their classification). Happy face!
However, running through the websites and installing heightened security made me realise that one of those websites should really have some proper admin backup. It’s a simple self-hosted WordPress site, but I shouldn’t be the only person looking after the back-end. So, while I’m busy recruiting a couple of ‘contributors’ to add content to keep the site refreshed, I’m also looking for an admin who could step in if I were, for example, abducted by aliens or Donald Trumpington or whatever. If I had to write a job description it would just say something like:
- Website administrator
- Ensure updates are regularly applied
- View logs
- Review security arrangements
- Create/Delete users as requested.
Oh, Pleeeze get abducted by The Donald… someone needs to punch some sense into him.
Trumpington needs to meet with Laura Guerra.