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A Complete Site-Owner's Guide to Securing Your WordPress Site
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About A Complete Site-Owner's Guide to Securing Your WordPress Site
Understanding WordPress Security
Why Your WordPress Site Needs to Be Secured
Setting Your WordPress Password
Password Managers in Brief
User Roles and Capabilities in WordPress
Backups -- How to Make Them, and Why
Trust Signals for Plugins
WordPress Updates -- What to Do and Why They Matter
Why/How to Visit Your WordPress Site
Security Plugins Overview
iThemes Security Quick Summary
SSL Part I: What and Why
SSL Part II: Setup for SSL
Final Step
What You Will Learn?
- A lot of advice about WordPress security is based on too-little evidence and over-complicates what can be a pretty cut-and-dry topic. In this course we cut through the clutter and get you all the details you need about WordPress security..
- We’ll cover topics like:.
- Your class project will be a secured WordPress site. As such, as a prerequisite we’ll expect that you have a WordPress site that you would like to make more secure. This class is geared toward people with some understanding of the use of WordPress, install plugins and themes, create content, etc. There’s no expectation that you’ve written code before, or that you’re really technical enough to know JavaScript from HTML..