Watch: Get the Right File Permissions in Your WordPress Site
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By Charles Costa,
Changing the default WordPress configuration permissions is one of the simplest ways to harden your WordPress website. I teach you how without plugins!
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Watch: Backup Your WordPress Sites Manually and Easily
WordPress
By Charles Costa,
There are plenty of plugins to backup your WordPress site, yet the best way to ensure your backup works is... to do it manually! I'll show you how in 5mins.
Mastering WordPress Roles and Capabilities
WordPress
By Johan Satgé,
User management on WordPress is based on WordPress roles and capabilities. Johan Satgé takes a closer look at how it works and how to control it.
Better Password Masking in Your WordPress Forms
WordPress
By Narayan Prusty,
Narayan Prusty covers how to create a plugin that adds a checkbox to show or hide password text (password masking) to help users to see passwords entered.
What Are WordPress Nonces?
WordPress
By Tim Carr,
In this article, Tim Carr covers how nonces (number used once) can help keep your WordPress themes and plugins secure.
More Tips to Further Secure WordPress
WordPress
By Elio Qoshi,
In a previous article, we looked at 10 tips to secure WordPress. In this article, we cover even more tips to further help secure your WordPress website.
10 Tips to Secure WordPress
WordPress
By Tim Carr,
In this article we look at 10 ways to help secure WordPress websites, starting with the simplest and working through to some more advanced practical tips.
An Introduction to the WordPress Filesystem API
WordPress
By Narayan Prusty,
In this article we show you the process of designing an admin page that writes and reads from our file system using the WordPress Filesystem API.
Improve your WordPress Theme Quality with VIP Scanner
WordPress
By Aleksander Koko,
In this article we cover what the VIP Scanner plugin is and how use it to better harden our sites, by scanning our WordPress themes to improve code quality.
Securing WordPress Against Hackers and DDoS Attacks
WordPress
By Robert Gibb,
WordPress in incredibly popular, and anything that’s popular is more open to attack. In this article we show you how to help harden your WordPress site.
2-Step Verification for WordPress Using Google Authenticator
WordPress
By Tahir Taous,
In this article, we show you how to enable two-factor authentication for WordPress using Google Authenticator and Google's 2-Step Verification.
Sanitizing, Escaping and Validating Data in WordPress
WordPress
By Narayan Prusty,
In this tutorial, we are going to look at some important native functions that can secure, clean and check data that is coming in or going out of WordPress.
Preventing Brute Force Attacks Against WordPress Websites
WordPress
By Narayan Prusty,
In this tutorial, Narayan Prusty covers some of the popular methods and plugins used to prevent brute force attacks against WordPress sites.
The Definitive Guide to WordPress Maintenance
WordPress
By Chris Burgess,
WordPress maintenance can often be seen as a chore, but as you'll discover, with the right tools and processes you can save time and avoid costly outages.
What You May Not Know about WordPress Security Plugins
WordPress
By Charles Costa,
WordPress security plugins are a great way to harden your site, but they often have unintended side effects that can give users a false sense of security.
How to Protect Yourself from Rogue WordPress Plugins
WordPress
By Charles Costa,
By following a couple of common sense measures, you can protect yourself from many malicious WordPress plugins.