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WordPress Security & Performance

Securing and speeding up WordPress sites: threat model and safe updates; hardening accounts, files and server; backups and incident response; measuring performance and Core Web Vitals; caching, CDNs and images; safe step-by-step deployment; and an audit-and-improve project on a practice site.

  • IntermediateBest if you know the basics
  • 20 hTotal content time
  • 15 lessonsOrdered from basics to practice
  • In ArabicWith technical terms in English

About this course

Securing and speeding up WordPress sites: threat model and safe updates; hardening accounts, files and server; backups and incident response; measuring performance and Core Web Vitals; caching, CDNs and images; safe step-by-step deployment; and an audit-and-improve project on a practice site.

Academy-authored content.

Course highlights

  • Model threats to WordPress sites and keep core, themes and plugins updated safely
  • Harden accounts, files, configuration and the server
  • Back up, monitor and respond to compromises
  • Measure and improve performance with caching, CDNs, images and Core Web Vitals
  • Deploy changes safely with verification and rollback

The practical result

What you’ll build in this course

Securing and speeding up WordPress sites: threat model and safe updates; hardening accounts, files and server; backups and incident response; measuring performance and Core Web Vitals; caching, CDNs and images; safe step-by-step deployment; and an audit-and-improve project on a practice site.

Final lesson: Lesson 5.3

Is this course for you?

Who it’s for

  • site owners, administrators and developers maintaining WordPress sites

Requirements

  • CRS-GEN-WP-FUNDAMENTALS

Course content

  • 7units
  • 15sessions
  • 6quizzes
Unit 13 sessions
  1. Lesson 1.1
  2. Lesson 1.2
  3. Lesson 1.3
Unit 23 sessions
  1. Lesson 2.1
  2. Lesson 2.2
  3. Lesson 2.3
Unit 33 sessions
  1. Lesson 3.1
  2. Lesson 3.2
  3. Lesson 3.3
Unit 43 sessions
  1. Lesson 4.1
  2. Lesson 4.2
  3. Lesson 4.3
Unit 53 sessions
  1. Lesson 5.1
  2. Lesson 5.2
  3. Lesson 5.3
Quizzes0 sessions · 6 quizzes
  1. Quiz 1
  2. Quiz 2
  3. Quiz 3
  4. Quiz 4
  5. Quiz 5
  6. Final exam
Projects and assignments0 sessions
  1. Assignment 1
  2. Assignment 2
  3. Assignment 3

The lecturer

Lecturer

Eng. Abdelmaksoud

Your next step

This course is part of the trackProgrammingFrom your first line of code to a project you build yourself.30 courses

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