
Who is this course for and what are we going to cover in this WordPress Course
A snap shot about the instructor, Khalid Hamadeh, an author and director of a leading Digital Marketing Agency in the UK.
Please watch this short lecture as it has important announcement.
How secure is your WordPress, do you know what you need to secure it. Have you make a checklist yet?
In this lecture, I will go through some of the reasons to why hackers love to hack your site.
I know this is not a hacking course, nor I want to teach you how to hack. I really need you to understand how hackers do what they do best i.e. hacking into your WordPress. This way you will understand exactly what to do to secure your site as well as have solid knowledge to how to fix it after identifying what exactly has happened if your site gets hacked.
Although this lecture is quite technical, I only brush on the topic and do not dig deeper into any of the subjects. If you need to know more, I would be happy to send examples but will not go over board with details.
A demo to show how easy and fast it is to hack into a WordPress site.
In this lecture I will go through the WordPress security keys and security salts and show you what they are and why they are important.
What difference does it make if you use cheap and cheerful hosting provider, is spending on hosting fees worth it?
Installing WordPress the correct way by avoiding default settings if possible
Control your Least privilege users
Useful Tricks & Techniques to protecting your WordPress Admin area
Avoid Free Premiums Themes & Plugin’s unless it is from a reliable source
Binning The Readme File & Hide WordPress Version Reporting
Assign the right user Permissions
Using Two-Factor Authentication
Removing unwanted or unused WordPress Plugin
Using SFTP to transfer files over
Disable file editing via the dashboard
Allow Google, Bing and Yandex to detect issues on your site
Block Multi-Login Attempts by users
Backing Up the Backup, is this Paranoia or plain common sense??
Better be safe than SORRY!!
Why cPanel backup, isn't a WordPress backup plugin enough to do the job?
Restoring your backup Manually & Automatically
Manually changing passwords
Using common sense is the ultimate way of securing your site
Important Announcement: I am adding brand new lectures to this course in the next couple of weeks which will make this course truly 'Ultimate WordPress Security' in 2023.
FREE Web Hosting Account to Students - If you are serious about your WordPress Security, why not practice what I teach in a dummy hosting account, all you have to do it complete this course, add a question in the student discussion area and provide me with your course feedback.
I have started to give my students enrolled in my WordPress Security course free web hosting account in order to test what they have learnt. This is a great way to try different plugin's and methods without having to try it on your live website. I will also show you an easy way to copy your live site into the testing environment.
WordPress 'The Ultimate Security Guide' is designed for any WordPress novice and professional alike. Anyone that is actively using or thinking of using WordPress as a platform in terms of a website or a blogging platform needs this course to empower them to take control over their site and hosting platform.
The aim of this WordPress course is to take a complex and frustrating subject for most and turn it into easy and an enjoyable task.
Securing your WordPress website is not easy and can be a very daunting experience so I am going to try and make it as easy and as simple as possible.
So if you have a website powered by WordPress or thinking of building one any time soon, then this is a must have course for sure.
In this course, I will go through free and paid tools to secure your WordPress website, it is you that can determine what to use based on your need, budget and required functionality. Over all, it is how much you care about your site and its success over time.
I will demonstrate a live hacking attempts into a WordPress website to show you how easy it is to hack.
I will also be at hand to help you in the student forum section of my course to give you a helping hand if you get stuck, as well as share resources and ideas with you and answer any question you may have.
As we progress in the course, if you need further verification or additional video's to cover a particular topic, just shout. This course is designed to be interactive and an evolving course.
** No Technical Knowledge Required **
START this course TODAY and SECURE your sites future tomorrow