WordPress Security is a critical topic among website owners. With the increasing number of vulnerabilities and attacks that are happening every minute, anyone can be a victim of these breaches—both companies big and small as well as individuals.
Below are some shocking statistics on why WordPress security is such a big issue
- Each week, Google blacklists around 20,000 websites for malware, and around 50,000 for phishing.
- Hackers attack WordPress sites both big and small, with over 90,978 attacks happening per minute
- 18 million WordPress users were compromised during the worst breach of WordPress security.
- 73% of the 40,000 most popular websites that use the WordPress software are vulnerable to attack
- 52% of reported WordPress security vulnerabilities relate to WordPress plugins
The objective of this course is teach you both basic and advanced techniques that you can apply to properly secure and harden your WordPress website against hackers and cyber criminals.
- How to use HTTPS & SSL certificates
- Fight against spam
- How to change the default login URL
- Plugin management
- Two step verification
- Using security keys
- How to use more than 10 different security plugins
- How to fix and clean up a hacked website
- and so much more
Basic techniques
You will start by learning how the basics. How to manage your plugins, create strong passwords, use HTTPS & SSL, deploy 2 factor authentication methods and more.
FIX A HACKED WEBSITE
What happens if you do get hacked? Learn how to fix your website, scan for malware and remove them.
Advanced Techniques
Take your security measures to the next level. Learn how to secure your most important files, disable hot linking, disable PHP executions, block IP addresses and more.
Security Plugins
Learn how to use 9 of the best plugins for WordPress security.