
Follow along to learn exact steps to better protect your WordPress website, identify security vulnerabilities, and reduce the risk of an attack.
Monitor multi-user activity with the WordPress security audit log plugin to track logins, actions, and changes; receive email alerts for suspicious activity to detect and stop threats quickly.
Compare free and paid WordPress themes and plugins, weigh update frequency and security checks from reputable sources, and use checks like theme check and theme authenticity checker.
Stay on top of WordPress updates to apply security patches that close vulnerabilities, and back up your site before updating plugins, themes, or WordPress. Dashboard notifications enable automatic updates.
Back up your WordPress site regularly, protect your files and database, and store backups off hosting; compare free and paid options to choose the best automated strategy.
Learn how Google can blacklist a site with malware, the impact on rankings and traffic, and simple checks to verify status and steps to fix hacking and blacklisting.
Explore WordPress security plugin types, including prevention plugins like CloudFlare or skurry, detection tools, utility plugins, and backup plugins, and learn how to choose for your site.
"The instructor gives a comprehensive review of WP tools and techniques to secure your WP website better. No website is invulnerable to attack but this course will put you way ahead of the game in a short time. I thoroughly enjoyed the course and I plan to use the downloadable code to secure my websites. Excellent course worth the cost many times over!" - Brian Crane
____________________________________________________________________
Every single day tens of thousands of WordPress websites are attacked. Hackers inject spam on your website, redirect your site visitors to other sites, delete your website files or take over complete control of your website.
It's quite scary what a hacker can do once they have access to your website.
If you're a WordPress website owner who thinks their website is too small or too insignificant for a hacker to target, think again. You see, most of the WordPress website attacks these days are completely automated which means no website is safe.
Hackers look for vulnerable websites that make it easy for them to gain access. It's your responsibility as a website owner to take security into your own hands and make a hackers job as difficult as possible so they go elsewhere.
By the end of this course you'll know and be able to implement the exact steps needed to protect your WordPress website from a variety of common attacks.
____________________________________________________________________
"Have whipped through the course, I understand how vulnerable my site is and that I need to take steps to protect it. The explanations of which tools I would need and how I would apply them are clear and there is a useful checklist at the end." - Sharon Ghouila
____________________________________________________________________
We'll cover steps you can take to better protect your website including:
Not sure what these are? Not only will you learn about these security measures here, I'll show you exactly how to implement each one.
On top of that, we'll discuss:
On top of that, I welcome any questions you have as you go through the process of securing your WordPress website.
Having your website hacked means you will lose time, money and possibly even your organic rankings. Don't leave another day to chance and secure your WordPress website today.