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WordPress Security: The Ultimate 32-Step Checklist

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Back when I was starting out as a web designer and developer, my biggest problem was getting stuff to work the way I wanted it to. I was concerned more about getting things (mostly) working as I expected them to be. Getting things to look snazzy was usually one of my primary goals when finishing a website. WordPress security was the least of my concerns. Hacking was something I read about, not something I expected to happen to me. SQL injection, cross-site scripting, elevation of privileges and critical security vulnerabilities were just buzzwords in tech news.

Source: WordPress Security: The Ultimate 32-Step Checklist

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How to Create Responsive Tables in WordPress That Don’t Suck

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HTML tables, once commonly used for webpage layouts, are now a layout headache for many web designers. Tables often work best with fixed widths, which means they can wreak havoc on otherwise pixel-perfect responsive website designs. So what’s a WordPresser to do? The first thing to do with tables is to use them sparingly. Tables should be used for tabular data and nothing else.

Source: How to Create Responsive Tables in WordPress That Don’t Suck

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25 Top-Rated Plugins for Winning the Fight Against WordPress Spam

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There’s been a huge explosion in hacking attempts involving spam in recent months, including everything from exploiting XSS, brute force, XML-RPC, CSRF, and DDoS. Unfortunately, spam is a fact of life when you have a WordPress website. Since the CMS is so popular, it naturally attracts an increased number of hacking attempts since there are more sites to infect than any other platforms.

Source: 25 Top-Rated Plugins for Winning the Fight Against WordPress Spam

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WordPress Development for Intermediate Users: Custom Fields and Metadata

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The default Page and Post content types in WordPress are enough for many websites, but if you really want to harness the powers of WordPress as a CMS it’s time to start learning about custom fields and metadata. This is the sixth post in our WordPress Development for Intermediate Users series. This series follows on from our popular WordPress Development for Beginners tutorials, which introduced you to the fundamentals of developing websites with WordPress, how to get started coding with PHP, and building themes and plugins.

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How to Add a Hello Bar to Your WordPress Site (and Why Everyone is Doing It)

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Want to boost your conversion rates? That’s what hello bars are all about. Whether you want to add email subscribers, advertise special deals, drive traffic to a landing page, or make a site-wide announcement, hello bars get the job done.

Source: How to Add a Hello Bar to Your WordPress Site (and Why Everyone is Doing It)

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8 Completely Free Ways to Steal WPMU DEV’s WordPress SuperPowers

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When I started out in WordPress I was broke. Not just broke, broke-ass. Newly married, new baby, $6.57 in the bank, no paycheck coming in and starting a new online business. I needed to start and grow a site. I needed the support of a community. I needed it all at top quality. And I needed it all completely for free.

Source: 8 Completely Free Ways to Steal WPMU DEV’s WordPress SuperPowers

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Speedy Plugins – WP Engine

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In this video we’re going to cover optimizing your site based on plugin selection. My name is Ethan and I’m a member of our enterprise support team here at WP Engine. I’m going to take you through some of these plugins and why they increase performance, with the goal of educating you on the reasons why these plugins increase your site’s speed so that you can make an informed decision on whether the plugin will be a good fit for your site.

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7 Steps for Front End Optimization

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In this video, we share 7 steps that will allow you to be better prepared to handle peak capacity through front end optimization of your WordPress site.

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7 Courses That Turn WordPress Users into Developers (Free and Paid Options)

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You’re not a beginner anymore. You don’t need to watch another tutorial on how to install WordPress, set up a theme, or find and install plugins. But, that doesn’t mean that you know everything.

Source: 7 Courses That Turn WordPress Users into Developers (Free and Paid Options)