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Now that your site is set up there's briefly talk about WordPress security and also how to install WordPress

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plugins which add additional functionality to your site.

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So first thing in terms of keeping your site secure.

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One of the best things that you can do is just come into updates here in the sidebar and just make sure

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that you have the latest version of Wordpress WordPress are constantly updating the software just to

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prevent against any hackers or spam.

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So the best way to stay protected is just to check that you have the latest version of Wordpress and

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you can just check that here.

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If you see a little notification to install this you can just click the button and go ahead and install

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it.

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And there are other things that you can do to protect your site.

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And one is to install some plug ins with additional security feature.

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So if we come and the plug in section here plug ins really allow us to add additional functionality

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to our site.

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And it's one of the key benefits of setting up a Web site with wordpress because you can really add

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so much extra functionality very easy.

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In fact if we come to the Wordpress dot org site we can see under plug ins here that there are about

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50000 extra plug ins which we can easily just on into our site we can see how many people use them etc..

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Now I want to show you a plug in that you can use to add a little bit of extra security to your site.

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But before we do that we can actually go ahead and delete some of these plug ins that are pre-installed

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on our WordPress site.

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Now plug ins do take up a little bit of space on your side so if you're not using them it's probably

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recommended that you delete them.

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So for example we can see that this jetpack and hello dolly are by default installed on our site.

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And what we can do is actually Firstly deactivate any plug in that we don't want first and then when

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we can go ahead and do it select them and delete them.

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So this is the process no matter what plugin you are using you can install them delete them test them.

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And it's very easy to add them in.

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Now in order to find new plug ins you can just click on Add new and then you can come up to the search

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bar here if you want.

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You can also see some plugins are featured here and there's also some of the most popular ones here

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as well which you can come in and you can have a look at really what they actually do.

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And if you think that's a political will to you you can just go ahead and install them very very easily.

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Now I'm going to show you how to install a plug in.

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And this is one that will just help a little bit with security.

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It's called log in lockdown and it should pop right up.

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And what we can do is go ahead and just install this.

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Essentially what this will do is limit the number of log in attempts from a given IP range within a

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certain period.

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So say if somebody was trying to hack your site they're just putting a script on to try a load of different

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passwords.

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Will this little plug in.

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We'll lock them out of the side for an hour so that they can't hack in.

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So you need to do is click install and then we can see it's been installed.

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If we come to our list of installed plugins.

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We can see that it is here we need to activate it.

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And that's all we really need to do to add that extra security in.

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Now what you can do also is adjust the settings if you want to become to settings log in lock.

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Then we can see that the number of failed attempts before they retry.

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We can change that if we want.

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How long they're locked out of you can adjust those settings easily.

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For this plug in and for any plug in the very same way.

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Once you download them are just going to leave it as it is.

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It's that simple plug in and they no need to adjust the settings.

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So that is how you add some additional security to your site.

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Remember just to make sure you're always updating to the latest version of Wordpress you can add in

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a slogan like log in like lockdown and you can also at any other plug into your Wordpress Web site.

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In the very same way.