There are countless blogs all over the world wide web. Money is being made by some people through it and some don't. Many of the bloggers use WordPress at the moment. You need to be sure that your blog is secure.
The clean hacked wordpress site Codex has an outline of what permissions are acceptable. File and directory permissions can be changed either through an FTP client or within the administrative page from your hosting company.
You can look. It is easy to restore your site by means of your files and change, if hackers suddenly hack your website.
You should also set the"Anyone Can Register" in Settings/General to off, and you should have some type of spam plugin. Akismet is the one I use, the old standby, but there are lots of them nowadays.
Now we are getting into things. You must rename get more it to config.php and alter the file config-sample.php, when you install WordPress. You need to set up the database facts there.
Implementing all the above will probably take less than an hour to finish, while creating your WordPress site considerably more immune to intrusions. Websites were cracked this past year, mainly due to preventable security gaps. Have yourself page prepared and you're likely to be on the safe side.