WordPress installations by default give the ID1 to the admin of the site, making it easy to find a breach.
Best is to change this in the Dbase to another number.
IMPORTANT: This is the first thing to do after a fresh install to not mix up content and other settings related to user 1
Before you change the WordPress administrator account ID also ensure that the administrator account does not have any posts or pages assigned to it. If it does, change the author of such posts or pages to a user with Author role manually or write an SQL query to change the author ID of such posts automatically.
Once you have done a WordPress database backup, connect to your WordPress database using the MySQL command line tool or the web based phpMyAdmin and execute the below queries on the WordPress database:
UPDATE wp_users SET ID = 1024 WHERE ID = 1;
The above MySQL query will change the default WordPress administrator user ID from 1 to 1024 in the wp_users table, i.e. where the user credentials are stored.
UPDATE wp_usermeta SET user_id = 1024 WHERE user_id = 1;
The above MySQL query will change the default WordPress administrator user ID from 1 to 1024 in the wp_usermeta table, where user related data is stored.
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