Setting up secret keys

Setting up secret keys takes as long as a few wags of a dog's tail and, with their hashing salts propping up your password and stifling backdoor cookie-hijacked Dashboard access, they may just prevent a hacker from turning your site into a dog's dinner.

Go to the beefy salts generator at https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt:

Tasty. Copy the lot, crack open your wp-config.php in the site's root, and sniff this out:

Trash all that, pasting in its place your new sodium-powered hack-me-nots.

You can change these again if you like. The only side-effect is that old cookies are burnt, so users will have to dip back into the cookie jar (or, more technically, just log back in).