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WordPress All-in-One For Dummies, 5th Edition
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WordPress All-in-One For Dummies, 5th Edition

by Lisa Sabin-Wilson
February 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
608 pages
14h 45m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 2

Using Secure File Transfer Protocol

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Discovering SFTP

Bullet Understanding secure file transfer

Bullet Exploring easy-to-use SFTP clients

Bullet Making sense of SFTP terminology

Bullet Editing files by using SFTP

Bullet Changing file permissions

Throughout this book, you run into the term SFTP. SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) is a network protocol used to copy files from one host to another over the Internet. With SFTP, you can perform various tasks, including uploading and downloading WordPress files, editing files, and changing permissions on files.

Read this chapter to familiarize yourself with SFTP; understand what it is and how to use it; and discover some free, easy-to-use SFTP clients and programs that make your life as a WordPress website owner much easier. If you run across sections in this book that ask you to perform certain tasks by using SFTP, you can refer to this chapter ...

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