WordPress Security in 2024: Protecting Your Site from Emerging Threats

In this video, I'll share my insights into WordPress security, an essential topic for every website owner.

With the increasing number of WordPress sites being hacked daily, it's crucial to understand and implement security measures to protect your online presence.

While I'm not a security expert, I'll delve into the practices and tools I use to reinforce the security of my websites and the recent changes I've made.

🔒 Key Points Covered in the Video:
1. Quality Hosting: It is important to have good hosting with security measures like a web application firewall (WAF) and siloed sites.
2. Regular Backups: The necessity of daily backups and having an off-site backup solution.
3. Security Plugins: Utilizing plugins like iThemes Security for added protection and features like file change monitoring and two-factor authentication.
4. Two-Factor Authentication: It adds an extra layer of security during the login process.
5. Firewalls: The role of 6G, 7G, or 8G firewalls in protecting your site.
6. Patch Stack: A tool that offers vPatching and advanced hardening options.
7. Updates: Keeping WordPress core, themes, and plugins up to date to avoid vulnerabilities.
8. Good Housekeeping: Using strong, unique passwords and usernames and enforcing strong password policies.

🛠️ Tools and Plugins Mentioned:

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[HernaniBeloMarques]

Yes please to a 8G tutorial. Thank you

[sebastianalbert]

Just a note. If your backup system can be controlled within Wordpress (manage, delete backups…) be cautious. If someone gets in with admin privileges, backups can be deleted, also if they reside on cloud storage.
Better look at solutions, which does not be able to be controlled within the WP dashboard.

[topgunseo]

Yes Paul Please do an 8G Video Tutorial!
I love your content and your style!

[MarkDendy]

Great video as always Paul, definitely some points I need to consider implementing on my client's websites.

Yes please on the 8g firewall video, I'm very keen to see that 👍

[theunwrittenwpexperience]

Thank you for the overview and all the tipps! 😁 I would appreciate it a lot if you could share your backup system / process 🙏 Where do you store the backups, do you encrypt them, how many backups do you keep, etc. ...

[whatznext]

Thanks for htis video! I recently moved from Divi to Bricks and I'm been worried about launching my website because I wasn't sure how to protect it beyond running updates. This helped put my mind at ease. I'm going to implement these as my base level form of security. I would like to see a future video on setting up the 8G firewall you mentioned. Also I have MFA setup with my hosting. How do I setup MFA on the WordPress admin pages for the sites I build? I appreciate you taking the time to round up these tactics to ensure we're as secure as possible.

[brettalan]

Does anyone still use AIO Security plugin? Is it good anymore? It seemed to have a ton of options to lock down the site as much as possible. Curious if Solid Security is better.

[aditmb]

Hey Paul, thanks for the awesome video.

For WPVivid, the "marking this backup can only be deleted manually" option means it can only be deleted from server level, right?

So let's say if I chose remote backup such as Google Drive and I enabled that option, I can't delete the backup from admin dashboard, only from the Google Drive itself, am I understanding it correctly?

[JohnXWayne]

Solid security vs wordfence? Which is better ?

[massstigma]

Would you recommend enabling auto-updates on plugins?

[JENetworkLtd]

HI Paul, I wathced your Solid WP video e fore this one, in SolidWP Pro you have Patchstack included, so are you also paying seperatley for patchstack as well?

[markuserikssen]

Great video, thanks! Would you say the free version of Solid Security is sufficient, or does it make sense to upgrade to the paid version?

Does the Patchstack protection mentioned in this video cost money? I heard it's integrated in Solid Security (to a certain extent).

I'd love to hear more about the 6G, 7G or 8G protection. Never heard of this before!

[ShaunSmithRoberts]

great video, thank you Paul, i noticed that un authorised users seem to find out usernames... would you recomend to 'Disable username enumeration' in security settings?

[Zim_]

8G Firewall
Means just adding content inside 8G-Firewall.txt to my .htaccess file? On top, like in your video?