A Few More Security Tips

More great tips follow. Some of these should be considered actionable items, which you should try accomplish as soon as possible. Others are more strategic, and require a change in mindset. Updating is one of the most important tips, so be sure to keep up with it. Tips for keeping your “house” organized, and even solutions for fighting Botnets will be discussed. It would be beneficial for you to create a list of these tips and start checking them off as you go. This way you won’t forget any of them.

Update Core

If I had written this book a few years ago, Update core would have been a top-5 tip, the reason being that most people didn’t do it. In the past, updating WordPress was such a pain. You had to FTP files up to the ...

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