Summary
Top notch, good start! Not too painful, hopefully.
The basic tasks of securing WordPress are pretty easily understood and, believe it or not, aren't such a big deal to implement. They surely make a drastic difference to the likelihood of your site becoming successfully 'sploited. Then again, let's face it ...
... 10 steps alone makes for a mighty short ladder if we want to get out of harm's way.
In Chapter 7 we'll galvanize the platform by, amongst other things, adding extra htaccess protections, boxing in bad bots, and with the use of an antimalware suite.
