WordPress Optimization and Security

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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

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1. Course Overview

1. Course Overview.mp4

01:39

2. Secure WordPress Installation

1. Overview.mp4

01:31

2. WordPress CMS.mp4

02:34

3. Setting up WordPress.mp4

06:56

4. Updating a WordPress Website.mp4

02:20

5. Review Software Version.mp4

02:12

6. WordPress Vulnerabilities.mp4

05:26

7. Using a Secure WordPress Hosting.mp4

05:52

8. Summary.mp4

01:07

03. Plugins and Themes

01. Overview.mp4

01:28

02. WordPress Plugins.mp4

02:33

03. Installing a Plugin.mp4

02:52

04. Updating a Plugin.mp4

02:55

05. Deactivating a Plugin.mp4

01:53

06. Removing Unused Plugins.mp4

01:31

07. Useful Security Plugins.mp4

11:13

08. WordPress Themes.mp4

01:43

09. Installing a WordPress Theme.mp4

04:07

10. Removing Unused Themes.mp4

02:17

11. Summary.mp4

01:04

04. User Management

01. Overview.mp4

01:08

02. User Management.mp4

03:01

03. Add a User.mp4

02:18

04. Secure Usernames and Passwords.mp4

04:08

05. Removing Users.mp4

00:53

06. Updating User Details.mp4

01:12

07. Default Admin Username.mp4

02:48

08. Invalid Login Attempts.mp4

04:11

09. Security Questions.mp4

02:37

10. Best Practices.mp4

03:02

11. Protect wp-admin.mp4

02:45

13. Summary.mp4

01:38

05. Adding Content to WordPress

01. Overview.mp4

01:23

02. Content on WordPress.mp4

03:57

03. Protecting against Spam.mp4

04:12

04. Optimize for SEO.mp4

03:37

05. Implement Caching.mp4

05:51

06. Minify and Compress.mp4

02:43

07. Use CDN for Content Delivery.mp4

02:02

08. Protect wp-content Directory.mp4

04:19

09. Hotlink Prevention.mp4

01:41

10. Summary.mp4

01:34

06. WordPress Internals

01. Overview.mp4

01:47

02. Securing WordPress Internals.mp4

04:22

03. Backup WordPress.mp4

04:23

04. Restore WordPress.mp4

02:15

05. Database Prefix.mp4

02:26

06. Database Security.mp4

01:16

07. Clean up Database.mp4

02:43

08. Maintenance Mode.mp4

01:44

09. Web Application Firewall.mp4

04:06

10. Using SSL for HTTPS.mp4

03:01

11. Securing the .htaccess.mp4

01:47

12. Harden PHP for WordPress.mp4

01:40

13. Prevent File Modifications.mp4

01:41

14. Clean up WordPress Installation.mp4

02:15

15. Reinstall WordPress.mp4

01:06

16. Summary.mp4

01:31

Description

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.

What You'll Learn?

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.

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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan is a Senior Software Engineer from Rabwah, Pakistan, and likes .NET Core and Node.js for regular everyday development. He is an expert with Cloud, Mobile, and API development. Afzaal has experience with the Azure platform and likes to build cross-platform libraries/software with .NET Core. Afzaal is an Alibaba Cloud MVP, twice he has been awarded Microsoft MVP status for his community leadership in software development, five times CodeProject MVP status for technical writing and mentoring, and 4 times C# Corner MVP status in the same field. Afzaal is an active open source contributor on GitHub and GitLab, you can find him as afzaal-ahmad-zeeshan.

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Pluralsight, LLC is an American privately held online education company that offers a variety of video training courses for software developers, IT administrators, and creative professionals through its website. Founded in 2004 by Aaron Skonnard, Keith Brown, Fritz Onion, and Bill Williams, the company has its headquarters in Farmington, Utah. As of July 2018, it uses more than 1,400 subject-matter experts as authors, and offers more than 7,000 courses in its catalog. Since first moving its courses online in 2007, the company has expanded, developing a full enterprise platform, and adding skills assessment modules.