Learn how to secure your WordPress website from hackers with this easy, step-by-step course! No tech skills required!
This course makes securing your WordPress website against hackers super simple, even if you're not tech-savvy! We'll break down the basics, tackle the scary stuff, and get you set up with a security plugin in no time. Let's protect your site together!
Comprehensive, Step-By-Step & Easy Way to Secure your Wordpress Website from Hackers
In 2019, it is even more important that you secure your WordPress website.
A couple of years ago it was estimated that only 44% of web traffic came from genuine visitors. The rest was from bots, hacking tools, scrapers and spammers. With that volume or dodgy web traffic coming to your website, are you confident that your website can withstand a hacker attack? What if I told you that an estimated 37,000 websites are hacked EVERY DAY. How confident are you now?
Securi, a top internet security service, reported that they dealt with 500 website infections a day, 7 days a week. Out of 11,000 infected sites they dealt with, 78% were Wordpress sites.
Once a site is hacked, it can be used for all kinds of malicious purposes, such as directing your traffic, stealing customer details, deleting files, changing your login details to lock you out, sending spam emails to millions of people (which will label your domain as spam and remove any chance it has of ranking in Google), you get the idea?
And hackers don't just target large, popular sites. They'll use computer software to scan millions of websites for vulnerabilities, and then attack the soft targets. There is no softer target than a newly setup Wordpress website!
There is obviously good reason to be concerned about your website security. However, I don't want you to think that Wordpress is an insecure platform that should be avoided, it isn't. Wordpress is actually very secure and if a security hole is found, it is usually plugged very quickly by the Wordpress security team and pushed out to all Wordpress installs - automatically. The real security issues come from the people running the websites. They often don't have enough knowledge to make educated decisions about the content they put on their site, the plugins they use or the themes they install.
This course has two aims:
I want to give you the knowledge you need so that you can understand where the main threats come from. With that knowledge, you will understand how your administrative actions can affect the security of your website. This knowledge gives you the power to stop hackers.
I want to give you a step-by-step solution to make your website as hackerproof as possible. We'll install a single Wordpress plugin and go through the entire setup process. Simply watch the tutorials, and follow along on your own site as I secure one of my own.
If you are not very technically minded, don't worry. This course assumes no technical ability and no programming skills.
About the Course
The course starts off with an introduction to hacking. Why hackers hack, and what makes some Wordpress sites more vulnerable to hackers than others.
We'll then go through the main ways that you can harden up your Wordpress installation, and I'll show you how to manually set some of these up on your site. You can try out some or all of these techniques yourself if you want to, but it is not essential (see lower down). You may just want to sit back and absorb the information so that you have the knowledge you need to make informed decisions on your Wordpress website going forward.
In the second half of the course, we'll install a Wordpress Security Plugin that covers all of the major security weaknesses outlined in the first half of the course, and work our way step-by-step, configuring the plugin to make our site virtually hack-proof.
By the end of this course, you will have both the knowledge and the skill set to secure a Wordpress website against hackers.
Know why hackers hack, and some of the common ways they do this
Understand the main threats that cause security problems with Wordpress websites
Understand that Wordpress is actually a secure platform, but it can easily be made insecure by the actions of those that run and administer the site
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I have written and published a number of books that are available on Amazon, including books on WordPress ("WordPress for Beginners 2024"), Self-Publishing ("Self-Publishing on Amazon 2023"), and search engine optimization ("SEO 2021"). I also run a website called ezSEONews, where I provide tutorials on a number of skills required for running a successful website.As an ex-schoolteacher, I hope I...
This course covered a lot of security concepts that I was not aware of. It's great to get Andy's experience on what is essential and what is not required. An update will be required following restructuring of the plugin.
A bit focused on WP All In One Plugin rather than alternatives to it or manual methods for the same things it does.
This course was insightful. Andrew Williams did well explaining not only how to secure a WordPress website but also what different options mean and which ones NOT to enable for certain types of websites.
In one sense, it wasn't necessary to take this course since all he does is install one plugin and change a couple lines in the WordPress configuration file. But I still think the course was worth the time because he explains the options as he goes through them, which helped me understand them better.
veary comprehensive and educational
Los ejercicios no son prácticas, y los captures son de muy mala calidad, y poco explicativos, mucho texto para los ejemplos.
I've completed three different Wordpress security courses; this is my third one. I still have two more classes to take. I'm taking so many courses because most of them don't go deep enough into the advanced understanding of Wordpress security. I'm taking these multiple classes to compare and understand why they are top-rated and how they can be improved from a student's perspective.
Although I am not an expert, I have gained practical experience installing numerous Wordpress versions. This experience has helped me discern the most effective strategies, see the evolution of the landscape, and identify which resources have stood the test of time.
While the course provided a good overview of general information, a significant portion relied on a plug-in. Even though many of the lectures were several years old, I was pleased to find that the course has been updated in many areas, providing newer information. However, the course could have delved deeper into the file system, an essential aspect of security in the past and remains relevant today. This would have involved setting up tables in a specialized manner, linking them to the main config file, and configuring the root folder in the public folder using FTP.
While the instructor demonstrated a solid understanding of Wordpress security, the course could be improved in some areas. For instance, the course needed to guide what to do if your site is hacked, why your site might be targeted, the role of site add-ons like Cloudflare, and the importance of using trust badges. I was particularly disappointed by the lack of advice on choosing hosting plans and essential features for different types of sites, which is a crucial aspect of website security. The course also did not cover the importance of a CDN, how this can affect security, and the potential impact of AI on WP and the future.
I am giving the course a solid three stars with room for improvement. The name of the course should change to indicate that it is for beginners, not advanced users, or I would not have purchased it, figuring it covered many of the topics I addressed above.
Material has been easy to understand and informative
Great stuff that keeps getting better!
Such important information, explained well about the whys and the wherefores of WordPress Security
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Goutham K.
This course gives complete details about WordPress security. Thank you very much!