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Pluralsight

WordPress Optimization and Security

via Pluralsight

Overview

Securing your WordPress site helps improve customer experience. This course will teach you how to implement best security practices and optimize your website for good performance.

WordPress is an open-source platform that enables you to self-host and deploys your web platforms. In this course, WordPress Optimization and Security, you’ll learn to improve your customer experience by securing the WordPress installation and optimizing the performance for content delivery. First, you’ll explore the plugin ecosystem and the best security plugins available to prevent spam, code execution, hot-linking, and brute force. Next, you’ll discover how to optimize the content on WordPress to optimize customer delivery, and improve the overall SEO and customer experience by implementing caching and CDN. Finally, you’ll learn how to optimize the database, perform a backup and restore your WordPress installation, and secure the PHP environment to prevent unauthorized access for your WordPress files and hosting environment. You will also learn how to secure the communication between the client and the server by using an SSL certificate for the HTTPS website. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of WordPress platform needed to secure your installation of the platform.

Syllabus

  • Course Overview 1min
  • Secure WordPress Installation 28mins
  • Plugins and Themes 33mins
  • User Management 32mins
  • Adding Content to WordPress 31mins
  • WordPress Internals 38mins

Taught by

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

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