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Six steps for securing your WordPress site

Posted on July 20, 2020 at 01:00 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

SMALL BUSINESS

By Nathan Segal

There’s a good reason WordPress is the foundation for many small-business websites: it’s comprehensive, flexible, and relatively easy to use.

But poor security practices also make these sites popular targets for malicious hackers. Fortunately, there are tools for protecting your WordPress-based assets.

To make sure I have WordPress security set up correctly, I spoke with FortiPress creator Brandon Zundel, a WordPress security expert. Here are his suggestions.

Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.28.0 (2020-07-20).

AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Small Business Computing AskWoody Plus Newsletter, iThemes Security, Wordfence, WordPress security

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