How To Secure Your Website For FREE - WordPress ULTIMATE Security Guide

Interested in how to secure your website? In this video, I'll go over all of the steps you need to take to fully secure your site completely free!
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In this video, I'll go over everything you need to know about website security and how to secure your website from hackers. I'll show you advanced, easy to implement techniques that'll cover more than just basic security. So, after watching this video you'll be fully capable of securing your website from hackers for free.
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TIME TABLE

00:00 - Intro
00:20 - WordPress Security Plugins
01:21 - Hiding The Backend
02:35 - Stopping Brute Force Attacks
03:55 - Website Backups For Free
06:00 - Installing an SSL For Free
07:25 - Good Practices
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WordPress Security Plugins

Whenever you create a new WordPress site I always recommend you install some sort of a security plugin to help you out. For this tutorial, I'll be using the iThemes Security Tool.

The plugin has a free and a paid version, but for what we're doing the free version will work just fine. And after all, if you want to learn how to secure your website, it's best to learn with free tools at the start. You can get this plugin by navigating to your WordPress dashboard and clicking on Plugins then Add New and searching for iThemes Security.
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Hiding The Backend

I always think that the best security is prevention. You won't need to secure your site if no one even attempts to hack it, right? This is why I often hide the backend of my website. And whenever people ask me "How to secure my website?" I always recommend rerouting the login portal from wp-admin to something unique. Since most automated attacks always try to access websites that use the wp-admin login portal.

With this one simple trick of installing a WordPress security plugin and rerouting the traffic. You'll already protect your website from thousands of attacks.
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Stopping Brute Force Attacks

Another really common attack that you need to protect your website from are brute force attacks. This is when hackers try thousands of passwords and simply guess the right combination.

To secure your website from these types of attacks you'll need to add a limit on how many times 1 IP address can try to log in incorrectly before they get blacklisted. However, I'll also show you how to add yourself to the white list and secure your website and your IP from getting locked out by accident.
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Website Backups

While most web hosting providers that focus on security already give you the option to back your site up as part of your hosting package. For example SiteGround.

Sometimes these security features don't come included. But there is a way to backup your website for free. This acts as a secondary step when thinking about how to protect your website from hackers. Because even if they do get through and mess with your site, you can restore everything that was lost with 1 click.
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SSL Certificate

If you still think how to secure your WordPress website for free there's the SSL certificate. Again, most providers give these out for free and installation is easy, but if for some reason you don't have one and want to protect your website with an SSL certificate I have a guide on how to do that right here.

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In summary, if you were thinking of how to protect your website, you'll already way ahead of the curve. With these WordPress security measures in place, your website should be A LOT less likely to be breached or hacked.
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- DISCLOSURE -

I am affiliated, but not sponsored by any hosting provider or website builder. This means I might make money when you purchase paid services through the links provided and I might be able to offer discounts when available. Not being sponsored allows me to keep my own opinions and provide reviews and tutorials without bias. So, if you enjoyed the content consider using my affiliate links. All of my opinions on this channel are always my own!

[Emit.Reviews]

If you don't want to use all of the different tools, you can grab a SiteGround plan and have over $200 worth of security/optimization plugins thrown in for free by using their included SGOptimizer plugin. Get started here!

[Hassan_Omer]

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Keep up the great work and good luck.

[Web]

This video deserves more views, man! Your way of explaining and interacting with the viewer is awesome. You rock!

[Akakas_fans_only]

Underrated video of the decade. The way you talk glues someone to the screen my guy. Good stuff.

[nohahathor]

I really enjoy watching your videos. very helpful, straight to the point, and fun.

[babybooseven]

wait, why dont you have a million subscribers? your content is amazing and the explanation is very simple! I really appreciate your work !thank you

[fadhirulafnan]

This video should have 1 million views by now. Amazing. Subscribed!

[czahboy]

Thanks alot you've realy helped me secure my account

[makemoneyjourney]

wow what an amazing video. eye opener indeed.

[makemoneyjourney]

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Millions need you, trust me. Your editing is sensational and everything perfect. you speak straight to the point something very scarce these days people talk too much unnecessary things and you are a gift to the internet.
Please take my advice.

[andrewmartin]

Thanx for yr help! I realized that my site was totally unsecure til now.

[zinebe.h]

you always come up with the best solutions. thank you very much!

[oqba]

When you go for a powerful hosting then you don't need a security or backup plugins.

Thanks Emit,

[RonitNikolsky]

Has itheme changed its options? I can't find these options in the plugin now (and they existed last year as you show in your video)

[garth]

this is awesome info thank you so much! I do have a question: Currently I have Sucuri installed on my website, do you know if this would/be likely to cause issues with the Ithemes Security plugin? Thanks again for the great content!

[rebeccataruc]

Noticed on Wordpress, ithemes security isn’t free just pro version I see. Is there another plug-in you recommend?

[annierajoria]

Would we be able to apply all these security measures as mentioned in the video on Hostinger as well for free?

[therankingworld]

thanks emit for such amazing advice but i think this tutorial might need an update as ithemes has updated tthe interface and its no longer free

[d.i.a.]

Hey, is this good enough to be applied for an e-commerce website?
Thank you for these videos!

[garyhamilton]

Thanks for the advice Emit, I've completed all security advice on your video. One question, now that my admin login has changed I cannot login through siteground, how do I fix this? Will there be any issue with back ups now that siteground cannot access? if that's the case. thanks! Gary