Hi Smashing Magazine reader! This is David Hayes, the person who wrote the post you just read 🙂

I hope you enjoyed my post on functions that WordPress developers should worry about for security reasons. There is a lot of advice out there about how to “secure” your WordPress site, and some of it is great – but some of it is pretty bad.

I hope you’ll take the lessons from the post and put them into practice: security is such an important topic.

I also hope you’ll want to learn more about WordPress security. To help get you on the right track, I’ve put together a simple WordPress security course which covers 80% of WordPress security advice, in just two emails.

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Let’s start at the beginning: if you follow good practices, WordPress is secure.

I’ve been a professional WordPress developer for five years, and a user for ten. In all my time with WordPress I’ve never had a site broken into, defaced, or in any other way “hacked”.

I’ve followed a number of steps on the WordPress sites I work on, and in my own work life overall, that have contributed to this happy streak-too many to cover in a quick email course.

But, when I think about the most crucial causes of my so-far hackless state, I think fundamentally I’ve done two big things right.

I’d go so far as to say that these two steps are 80% of what you need to do to keep a WordPress site secure.

If you get them right, other security advice you might follow is just “icing on the cake.”

All I need to tell you about them is your email address. You can sign up above.

See you inside!

—David

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