Yesterday I attended a WordPress Meetup about basic security presented by Nick Batik. WordPress Meetups are awesome free gatherings where developers volunteer to teach others all about WordPress and I’ve been to quite a few. I’m working on a whole series about making a WordPress site (my How to Install a Favicon on WordPress tutorial will also be part of that series), but this security information is too important to keep to myself until I get this site moved and the series completed.
If your site gets hacked, to add to all the other headaches you can get blacklisted by Google. (Understand Google Website Blacklists) You can see Nick’s slides from the presentation on the WPAustin blog, Revisting WordPress Security. There are links to lots of authoritative sites to learn more information. (Note: Currently, the slide program only works in Firefox for me, I can only see the first slide when I use Chrome.) When you’re searching around the web, it’s really helpful to learn where the sites are that you can really trust. That’s one of the things I love about going to these WordPress meetups. But below are are some basic WordPress security tips, practices that even a beginner can easily tackle, that were my take-away from the discussion.
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