Hiding wordpress content directories from being listed

If you type yourdomain/wp-content/plugins or themes,you can view all the plugins or themes you use.

The thing here is, everyone else also can view your plugins and themes and if you’re really concerned about your wordpress security, this shouldn’t be happening. Surprisingly many famous authors using wordpress haven’t bothered about this issue. If you know any author who use wordpress and is famous, you might want to find out his secrets for success.

Find out what plugins he uses today before he comes across this issue.

To disable the directories from being viewed in your blog you simply have to place a .htaccess file in the concerned directory.

The directions to be given in the .htaccess file can be according to your requirement.

If you wish to restrict your directories from being listed, you may give the instruction “Options -Indexes”, without quotes.

If you wish to just ignore all files from being listed, you may give the instruction “IndexIgnore *”, without quotes again.

If you want only particular files like .gif or .jpg to be restricted from being displayed, you may use  IndexIgnore *.gif  *.jpg accordingly.

Remember that this directive affects the folder that .htaccess file is placed in and also all folders below it.

To make a .htaccess file open any text editor like notepad and type the appropriate directive (instruction) and save the file with file name as .htaccess.

Notepad may append a .txt extension to the .htaccess and be sure to remove that extension.

So finally your .htaccess file looks something like this.

# BEGIN WordPress

IndexIgnore *

# END WordPress

Now transfer this file to your plugins folder or themes folder using FTP and also ensure that the file has a CHMOD of 644, else there might be little use of making this change.

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