Focused on basic wordpress maintenance and security :)

1. Hands-on workshop on

2. Outline
What wordpress
Why wordpress
Development environment
Installation
Basic usage
Maintenance & Security

3. What is wordpress
WordPress is a free and open source blogging
tool and a content management system (CMS)

4. Why wordpress

5. Why wordpress
 It’s open source & free
 User Friendly
 SEO friendly
 Standards Compliant
 Plugins extend functionality
 Theme support
 Highly customizable
 Large community support
 Lower setup & maintenance cost

6. Development Environment
 Ubuntu users
 sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-gd mysql-server
phpmyadmin
 Windows user
 Download XAMPP/WAMP and install

7. Installation
• Download wordpress
• Place ‘wordpress’ folder into www/htdocs directory
• Create a database

8. Installation

9. Installation

10. Installation

11. Installation

12. Installation

13. Installation

14. Maintenance
 Backup wordpress regularly
 Optimize your database
 Use caching
 Reduce the CSS, JS files to as few as possible
 Use as few plugins as possible
 Use error reporting plugin so that you can know the
problems via email

15. Security
 Files permission should be 644
 Folder permission should be 755
 User secrete keys in wp-config file.
https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt
 Change your wordpress default 'WP_' table prefix

16. Security
 Use .htaccess and prevent unwanted access
AuthUserFile /dev/null
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Access Control”
AuthType Basic
order deny, allow
deny from all
# IP address to whitelist
allow from 192.168.0.0.1

17. Security
Deny access to wp-config.php file
<files wp-config.php>
order allow, deny
deny form all
</files>

18. Security
User security related plugins
Update your wordpress and plugins regularly.
Avoid using user name as admin and use a
strong password
Monitoring your logs

19. Migration
• Export from the current WordPress site
• Create backup for all the uploaded files and
download it locally

20. Migration
• Create the new WordPress site
• Add the uploaded files and themes
• Import the data
• Configure your new site
• Add plugins
• Enable theme

21. WHO AM I
Mohammad Shoriful Islam Ronju
Wordpress addict :-P

22. QUESTIONS