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WordPress: Building a Secure Site

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Overview

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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.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Building a secure WordPress website
1. WordPress Structure and Vulnerabilities
  • How to choose a secure WordPress hosting provider
  • Overview of the WordPress structure
  • How WordPress sites become vulnerable
2. WordPress User Accounts
  • How to create a secure WordPress user account
  • Best practices for keeping WordPress user accounts secure
  • Tools for securing your WordPress login screen
3. SSL Certificates
  • How an SSL certificate keeps WordPress sites secure
  • How to troubleshoot an SSL installation
  • Tools for setting up an SSL certificate
4. WordPress Plugins and Themes
  • 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
5. Comment Spam
  • Why spam comments are dangerous for WordPress sites
  • How to prevent WordPress spam comments
  • How to remove WordPress spam comments
6. Website File and Database Backups
  • How to make secure WordPress website backups
  • Best practices for taking WordPress website backups
7. Firewalls
  • How firewalls make your site more secure
  • Tools for setting up a WordPress firewall
8. Ecommerce Site Security
  • How to make your ecommerce site more secure
  • Best practices for securing an ecommerce site
9. Editing WordPress Files
  • 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
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Allie Nimmons

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