Название: Wordpress - Security Tips - How to outsmart hackers: A step-by-step guide
Автор: Thomas Person
Издательство: Amazon.com Services LLC
Год: 2020
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, azw3, epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

Every year Google warns tens of millions of Internet users, by "an alert", indicating that the site they visit may contain malware and may steal their personal information (credit card numbers, phone numbers...)? Have you ever come across this kind of message while visiting a website? Did you continue browsing knowing this?

So, imagine the consequences on your website, which is one of your main sources of income, reputation, a showcase for your know-how, your passion, the heart of your community, suffers this misadventure.

In short, it now seems impossible not to consider WordPress when it comes to building websites, especially if you are not a professional in the field of web development, because you will be able to put a beautiful website online without having to write a single line of code.
However, there is another side to this medal, rarely mentioned, which motivated the writing of this book: the computer security of WordPress sites. Indeed, like all computer software, WordPress has security flaws. Automatically activated security updates are not enough to solve the problem because they do not cover the many vulnerabilities in the plugins and themes that are the responsibility of their respective publishers. Besides, some security holes are not technical but "human", such as using the WordPress admin account with a trivial or easily crackable password such as "admin123".

Since WordPress is widely deployed around the world and often used by amateur webmasters, websites that use it are logically very exposed to attacks by hackers from around the world. These hackers regularly succeed in doing a lot of damage because the rules of the trade and good practices in terms of computer security have not been applied. Among the CMS sites hacked last year, 90% were WordPress sites!

Don't you think then that the security of your WordPress site is paramount? Today, cybersecurity issues are constantly growing and it is essential to give it particular consideration!

This guide is designed to help you, step by step, to secure your WordPress site, even without being an expert! It only offers the implementation of free and proven solutions. In this guide you will find:

• Why WordPress sites are the target of many computer attacks
• Regardless of what you may think, find out why hackers are very interested in your WordPress site.
• How hackers infiltrate your site
• Why you must enhance the security of your WordPress site
• The principles of operation of the main types of attacks and how to protect oneself from them
• The 5 easy to do settings that will protect you against a large number of hackers
• Why you should absolutely put your site on HTTPS and how to do it. Indeed, Chrome (Google's browser representing 60% of web traffic) systematically alerts web users (with a dissuasive warning) as soon as the site they are consulting is not in HTTPS!
• A simple trick to make all your passwords unbreakable
• The 5 plugins to add to your WordPress site and how to set them up to secure your site
• The 3 essential tools to use to monitor your site and detect potential attacks
• How to know if your site has been hacked and what to do if it happens to you