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The Ultimate Step-By-Step Guide to WordPress Security

Offered By: Skillshare

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WordPress Courses Cybersecurity Courses WordPress Security Courses

Course Description

Overview

You've put so much time and money into building your WordPress website. Now It's time to protect all your hard work and make sure hackers can't take full control of your website.

An unprotected WordPress website is a gold mine for hackers. They target easy to access and vulnerable websites so they can inject their spam spam links, redirect your website to theirs and even take over full control of your website for financial gain. 

When this happens to you, you can get blacklisted by Google, lose your organic rankings, have your site taken down and even lose your website completely. If you're not prepared, you may have to start from scratch. It's scary what hackers can do and it's an extremely bad position to be in.

Spending even an hour on website security by implementing a handful of easy tactics can greatly improve the security of your WordPress website and encourage hackers to go elsewhere.

In this course you will not only discover the exact steps to take, you can follow along step-by-step and start protecting your website as you go so by the end of the course your website will be much safer. 

Every single day tens of thousands of WordPress websites are attacked. Don't let yours be one of them.


Syllabus

  • WordPress Security: The Difference This Course Will Make
  • Why Securing Your WordPress Website Is So Important
  • Am I Really At Risk? Why Would Someone Want to attack My Site?
  • Most Common Type of WordPress Website Attacks
  • Section Into: The Techniques You're About to Learn and Apply
  • How Many Seconds Will It Take For a Hacker to Guess Your Username and Password?
  • Are Hackers Finding Your Admin Usernames By Doing This?
  • Don't Let Hackers Know When They Have The Right Username or Password
  • If At First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try, Try Again
  • What File Permissions Are You Using?
  • Are You Password Protecting Your Most Vulnerable Directories?
  • Hackers Love This WordPress Default You Probably Forgot to Change
  • Easy to Update Security Keys for Authentication
  • Is Your Computer The Problem?
  • Don't Give Hackers Easy Information - Remove This Info From Your Site...
  • Are Your Website Files Open For Public Viewing?
  • How to Keep Hackers From Accessing Your Site Via Comments
  • Do You Know What Your WordPress Users Are Doing?
  • Properly Setting Up New Users For The Least Risk
  • Section Intro: Let's Talk About Hosting
  • The Importance of a Good Host
  • Section Intro: These Tasks Couldn't Be Any Easier & Make a Huge Difference
  • Free vs Paid Themes & Plugins When It Comes to Website Security
  • How Many Themes & Plugins Should You Be Using?
  • Are You Keeping Up With WordPress?
  • Disable Theme & Plugin Editing
  • The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Website That You Probably Aren't Doing
  • Section Intro: Yikes! My Website Has Been Hacked. Now What?
  • The Importance of Using This Google Tool for Website Security
  • 7 Signs Your Website Has Been Infected Without You Realizing It
  • Has Your Website Been Black Listed By Google?
  • What to Do If Your Site Has Been Hacked
  • Where to Get Help If You Need It
  • Section Intro: Understanding The Tools Available To You
  • The Different Types of WordPress Security Plugins Available
  • Is Your WordPress Website Now Better Protected?

Taught by

Christine Maisel

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