January 2015
Beginner to intermediate
504 pages
14h 38m
English
book
Professional WordPress: Design and Development, 3rd Edition
by Brad Williams, David Damstra, Hal Stern
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13 Securing WordPress
WHAT’S IN THIS CHAPTER?
- Common best practices for securing websites
- Keeping your WordPress site healthy and secure
- Delegating proper permissions to your users
The past few chapters have covered how to present your fabulous content in effective and beautiful ways, how to increase the likelihood of visitors finding your content, and how to move content from other sources into your WordPress website. What happens when (if?) this all succeeds and your site gets noticed? Well, now you have a live and active site, which opens up a whole range of other challenges you have to think about. In this chapter, you will look at mechanisms to deal with the resultant attention you will get in terms of unwanted content, malicious visitors, and other ne’er-do-wells. This chapter will address conceptual best practices for securing any online web property and also focus on specifics for WordPress.
SECURING YOUR WORDPRESS SITE
Unfortunately, with success and popularity, you also become a target. WordPress is a successful and popular platform for websites and with that brings the attention of the hackers and bad guys. It is simple economics that bad guys looking to build a network of sites will look to the most widespread applications and attack their vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, one of the vulnerabilities with WordPress (similar to PHP) is that, because of the low barrier of entry and ease of use, users who are generally not too tech savvy or security minded ...
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