Learn how to launch a WordPress website that is safe and secure. Find out how to address vulnerabilities, create and manage safe user accounts, edit files for security, and more.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Building a secure WordPress website
- How to choose a secure WordPress hosting provider
- Overview of the WordPress structure
- How WordPress sites become vulnerable
- How to create a secure WordPress user account
- Best practices for keeping WordPress user accounts secure
- Tools for securing your WordPress login screen
- How an SSL certificate keeps WordPress sites secure
- How to troubleshoot an SSL installation
- Tools for setting up an SSL certificate
- How to choose secure WordPress plugins
- Best practices for keeping WordPress plugins secure
- How to choose secure WordPress themes
- Best practices for keeping WordPress themes secure
- Why spam comments are dangerous for WordPress sites
- How to prevent WordPress spam comments
- How to remove WordPress spam comments
- How to make secure WordPress website backups
- Best practices for taking WordPress website backups
- How firewalls make your site more secure
- Tools for setting up a WordPress firewall
- How to make your ecommerce site more secure
- Best practices for securing an ecommerce site
- Secure your WordPress site by tweaking the wp-config file
- Secure your WordPress site by disabling XML-RPC
- Secure your WordPress site by disabling PHP executions
- Secure your WordPress site by disabling directory indexing and browsing
- Secure your WordPress site by tightening file/folder permissions
- Next steps
Taught by
Morten Rand-Hendriksen
