WEBVTT 00:00.270 --> 00:03.210 Site security is so important. 00:03.240 --> 00:07.750 It's crazy how many people will actually try to hack your Web site. 00:07.770 --> 00:14.460 Once you start to grow your traffic and if it wasn't for some security plug ins like word fence security 00:14.550 --> 00:18.720 I'm sure that my web site would be down and hacked all the time. 00:18.720 --> 00:24.840 So here are two free options that both have premium options as well but they're easy to get started 00:24.840 --> 00:25.890 with for free. 00:25.890 --> 00:27.120 One is security. 00:27.120 --> 00:30.560 This is a security web security web site. 00:30.570 --> 00:34.320 That's their specialty and they have a free plug in that you can get started with. 00:34.320 --> 00:39.480 The other is word fence security and this is the one that I'm going to walk you through right now the 00:39.480 --> 00:41.790 one that I use and the one that I recommend. 00:41.790 --> 00:47.340 Of course if you want to do your own due diligence and do some research yourself you can decide between 00:47.340 --> 00:47.810 the two. 00:47.820 --> 00:50.790 But to get started let's install word fence. 00:50.790 --> 00:56.520 You can see that it has over a million active installs and thousands of good reviews. 00:56.520 --> 00:59.980 Once word fence is installed it's pretty plug and play. 01:00.000 --> 01:03.660 There's a pop up where you can actually just go ahead and start the tour. 01:03.660 --> 01:08.180 And it kind of walks you through all the things that you need to know about or advance. 01:08.190 --> 01:12.540 So this is what I would recommend doing when you install this plug in for the first time. 01:12.570 --> 01:18.330 What it does is basically walk you through all of the different things that word fence does such as 01:18.330 --> 01:26.250 scanning your site for any malware files or any things that are an issue with your web site including 01:26.280 --> 01:27.920 plug ins that are out of date. 01:27.930 --> 01:34.310 Creating a firewall against hackers who try to maliciously add a file or do something to your Web site. 01:34.350 --> 01:41.730 It also automatically blocks IP addresses of people who have tried to log in to your Web site and have 01:41.730 --> 01:44.240 been permanently blocked for doing so. 01:44.250 --> 01:48.050 So you can go through with that tour I suggest doing it. 01:48.060 --> 01:54.330 But really quickly if you go to the dashboard you'll see how it basically works and you'll see what 01:54.360 --> 01:56.870 enables what's not enabled. 01:56.880 --> 02:02.500 You can see that the fire wall log and security different things are enabled other things are premium. 02:02.520 --> 02:09.840 You can see here the total number of attacks that word fence has blocked in the past day. 02:09.840 --> 02:14.220 Now this isn't on your site but this is just across all of the sites that it protects. 02:14.250 --> 02:20.010 And then once you start getting people attacking your Web site which I hope you don't you'll start seeing 02:20.010 --> 02:26.520 it here you'll see the IP addresses that are blocked you'll see if anyone is logging in or attempting 02:26.520 --> 02:27.810 to log into your web site. 02:27.810 --> 02:29.700 You'll see countries that are attacking here. 02:29.720 --> 02:33.720 But the main thing is that you have to configure this plug in furs. 02:33.750 --> 02:40.770 So at the top you'll see this banner that says that you have to configure word fence so click that configure 02:40.800 --> 02:41.800 button right there. 02:41.820 --> 02:48.360 It's going to run an entire scan of your web site to make sure that everything's up to speed everything's 02:48.360 --> 02:49.210 good to go. 02:49.230 --> 02:51.270 And then it's going to actually be active. 02:51.300 --> 02:52.860 You have different choices. 02:52.890 --> 02:57.140 And with this plug in I just recommend using what they recommend. 02:57.330 --> 03:02.160 So this Apache plus SU ph pee test. 03:02.370 --> 03:05.580 So just do that and click continue and it will run. 03:05.580 --> 03:11.880 It'll ask you to download a backup copy of a certain file is H.T. access file. 03:11.880 --> 03:14.410 Go ahead and click download and just save it. 03:14.520 --> 03:16.700 Click Continue once you've downloaded it. 03:16.950 --> 03:22.380 If successful it will give you the success message and let you know that your site is being protected 03:22.380 --> 03:24.000 to the fullest extent. 03:24.000 --> 03:29.640 The one thing I want you to check out is go down to your options and this is where you can change some 03:29.640 --> 03:30.180 of the things. 03:30.180 --> 03:33.750 Everything is set up pretty much automatically for you. 03:33.990 --> 03:37.770 But there are some options that I would just check out and look at. 03:37.830 --> 03:40.680 And one is under log in security options. 03:40.680 --> 03:45.810 So this is where if someone does get to your logon page and tries to log in but doesn't have the right 03:45.810 --> 03:49.290 password they'll be blocked after a certain number of attempts. 03:49.350 --> 03:55.230 So I suggest lowering this number because it's after 20 attempts that seems pretty high. 03:55.230 --> 03:57.510 So I'm going to limit it to five. 03:57.530 --> 03:59.330 And same with password. 03:59.370 --> 04:00.900 I'll limit it to five. 04:00.950 --> 04:04.000 It counts these failures over a period of five minutes. 04:04.050 --> 04:05.450 Seems pretty fine. 04:05.460 --> 04:10.950 So make sure though you do remember your passwords so you don't get automatically locked out because 04:10.950 --> 04:18.660 you could be blocked where defense will also send you a weekly summary of any sort of blocked attempts 04:18.660 --> 04:25.140 to log on or anything that is wrong with your web site it will automatically send you alerts if you 04:25.140 --> 04:31.140 have plug ins that are out of date or if there are files or any attempted attacks on your Web site as 04:31.140 --> 04:37.140 you can see there are a lot of options and a lot of things going on with word fence and there could 04:37.140 --> 04:41.400 be an entire course on how to use word fence for your Wordpress Web site. 04:41.400 --> 04:46.140 But like I said this is a pretty plug and play plug in so now that you haven't installed you can kind 04:46.140 --> 04:49.410 of rest assured that your web site is pretty darn safe. 04:49.410 --> 04:51.920 Thanks for watching and that's how you protect your wordpress site.