WordPress Developer Tips: Locking Down WordPress – Morten Rand–Hendriksen

By: Morten Rand-Hendriksen

Duration: 56m 54s

Description:

You need to lock WordPress down to keep your site secure and prevent malicious attacks. This installment of Morten Rand-Hendriksen’s WordPress Developer Tips covers security best practices, such as backing up your site, limiting admin and server access, and using settings and code snippets to block access to core files. Morten also introduces valuable security plugins and third-party services that will help you limit login attempts, enable two-factor authentication, and divert malicious traffic.

Contents:

Introduction – 1m 37s

Welcome – 41s
Techniques covered in this course – 56s

1. WordPress Security Best Practices – 16m 43s

WordPress is secure – 3m 23s
Keeping up to date – 5m 26s
Backing up WordPress – 1m 11s
Secure usernames and passwords – 3m 22s
Limit admin access – 3m 21s

2. Limiting Server Access – 7m 32s

Server access: Best practices – 3m 51s
Server file and folder permissions – 3m 41s

3. Hardening WordPress Core – 16m 27s

Blocking web access to the other folder – 6m 8s
Blocking web access to wp-config.php – 2m 54s
Using keys and salts – 3m 34s
Disabling file editing in WordPress admin – 3m 51s

4. Essential Security Add-Ons – 13m 15s

Limit login attempts – 4m 47s
Two-factor authentication – 3m 24s
Diverting malicious traffic – 1m 52s
What to do when your site is compromised – 3m 12s

Conclusion – 1m 20s
Exploring WordPress theme development with lynda.com – 1m 20s

Author:

Zack Arnold is an award-winning film and television editor (Empire, Underground, Burn Notice, and The Bannen Way) and documentary director (GO FAR: The Christopher Rush Story), as well as the creator of the Fitness In Post program. He has been featured in American Cinema Editors magazine, the Huffington Post, Forbes, Creative Cow, postPerspective, ProVideo Coalition, and Art of the Guillotine, and has been a guest on numerous post-production and business podcasts.

Zack knew he wanted to become a film editor by age 9, after shooting a home movie running around the house with his older brother. Zack was less than enthusiastic about the production process, but after adding the score of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly to their raw footage, he became hooked on editing. After editing numerous side projects in high school and then graduating from the University of Michigan with a degree in film/video studies, Zack moved to Los Angeles and started his first industry job as an assistant editor for a movie trailer company. He was promoted to editor 5 months later, won a Golden Trailer Award for the first trailer he ever cut professionally, and has been cutting for the last 14 years. He has edited over 100 movie trailers, featurettes, studio and independent feature films, web series, and television series, and more weddings than he cares to mention.