WordPress: Building a Secure Site

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Allie Nimmons

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01 Introduction

001 Building a secure WordPress website.mp4

01:27

02 WordPress Structure and Vulnerabilities

001 How to choose a secure WordPress hosting provider.mp4

04:25

002 Overview of the WordPress structure.mp4

02:11

003 How WordPress sites become vulnerable.mp4

01:34

03 WordPress User Accounts

001 How to create a secure WordPress user account.mp4

02:36

002 Best practices for keeping WordPress user accounts secure.mp4

01:47

003 Tools for securing your WordPress login screen.mp4

01:57

04 SSL Certificates

001 How an SSL certificate keeps WordPress sites secure.mp4

01:49

002 How to troubleshoot an SSL installation.mp4

02:31

003 Tools for setting up an SSL certificate.mp4

00:43

05 WordPress Plugins and Themes

001 How to choose secure WordPress plugins.mp4

04:02

002 Best practices for keeping WordPress plugins secure.mp4

03:18

003 How to choose secure WordPress themes.mp4

02:17

004 Best practices for keeping WordPress themes secure.mp4

01:06

06 Comment Spam

001 Why spam comments are dangerous for WordPress sites.mp4

01:15

002 How to prevent WordPress spam comments.mp4

01:48

003 How to remove WordPress spam comments.mp4

01:32

07 Website File and Database Backups

001 How to make secure WordPress website backups.mp4

00:58

002 Best practices for taking WordPress website backups.mp4

01:05

08 Firewalls

001 How firewalls make your site more secure.mp4

01:04

002 Tools for setting up a WordPress firewall.mp4

01:31

09 Ecommerce Site Security

001 How to make your ecommerce site more secure.mp4

01:26

002 Best practices for securing an ecommerce site.mp4

02:28

10 Editing WordPress Files

001 Secure your WordPress site by tweaking the wp-config file.mp4

02:16

002 Secure your WordPress site by disabling XML-RPC.mp4

00:37

003 Secure your WordPress site by disabling PHP executions.mp4

01:08

004 Secure your WordPress site by disabling directory indexing and browsing.mp4

00:38

005 Secure your WordPress site by tightening file folder permissions.mp4

01:16

11 Conclusion

001 Next steps.mp4

00:31

Description

Building a secure website is a required skill for anyone who develops websites. In this course, instructor Allie Nimmons walks you through how to build and launch a secure website with WordPress. Allie explains what to look for when you are shopping for a secure hosting provider for your website. She points out what practices are most important to protect your site from WordPress vulnerabilities, then goes into tools to secure WordPress user accounts and login screens. Allie covers all the basics about SSL certificates and discusses best practices for keeping WordPress plugins and themes secure. She tells you why spam comments pose a threat to WordPress sites and explains how to prevent and remove them. Allie steps through best practices for making backups, as well as tools for setting up a WordPress firewall. She concludes with steps you can take to make your ecommerce site and your WordPress files more secure.

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