About the Book
WordPress security is not about finding one plugin, turning on a few settings, and assuming your website is protected. WordPress Security From the Root Up explains how stronger website security comes from multiple layers working together—from the server and hosting environment all the way through WordPress, themes, plugins, user accounts, backups, and ongoing maintenance.
Readers learn how to reduce unnecessary risk through secure hosting, responsible update practices, strong authentication, appropriate user permissions, trusted software, secure coding practices, monitoring, firewalls, malware protection, backups, and recovery planning. The book also explores common ways WordPress websites are compromised and explains what to do when a vulnerability, stolen credential, malware infection, or other security incident occurs.
Written for business owners, developers, freelancers, and anyone responsible for maintaining a WordPress website, this guide focuses on practical security rather than fear-based promises. No website can be guaranteed to be completely immune from attack, but a properly designed layered security strategy can make a website significantly harder to compromise and much easier to recover when something goes wrong.