How to Keep Your Website Secure and Up-to-Date: Resources

Thank you to the Michigan Bed and Breakfast Association for inviting me to speak today about how to keep your website secure and up-to-date.

My webinar focused on steps every website owner can take to safeguard their site, through a combination of: 

1. Good password, username, and access policies
2. Software updates
3. Security plugins/services
4. Regular backups of the full website, including database and files

As promised, here are the resources, plugins, and other tips I shared in today’s webinar. Hope you find them useful.

Hacked WordPress Sites

1. WordPress REST API Vulnerability Exploits Continue
2. 1.5 Million WordPress Pages Hacked

Backup Plugins and Services

1. BackUpWordPress plugin
2. UpdraftPlus plugin
3. VaultPress service

Security Plugins and Services

1. iThemes Security plugin
2. Wordfence plugin
3. Sucuri Security
4. VaultPress service

Managed WordPress Web Hosts Offering Security Services with Hosting

1. Flywheel
2. WP Engine

Videos: Backup and Restore Your WordPress Site

1. How to Backup & Restore Your WordPress Site with UpdraftPlus
2. Overview of the BackupWordPress plugin Presented by WordPress expert, Morten Rand-Hendriksen. Requires a Lynda.com subscription

Password Managers

Why you need a password manager (Note, many of the applications mentioned in the article are no longer free)

1. 1Password
2. LastPass
3. Dashlane
4. Keepass

Forms

1. 10 questions to ask before choosing a WordPress form plugin

How to Keep Up-to-Date on Features in WordPress

My favorite two places for information about WordPress are:

1. WPBeginner
2. WPTavern

Maps of Nearby Places

Note: I have not used either of these plugins, they were recommended to me from members of my online WordPress design group.

1. WP Store Locator
2. Stellar Places