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Best practices for keeping WordPress plugins secure

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Best practices for keeping WordPress plugins secure

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- [Instructor] So, now that we know how to find good plugins to use and download, we want to make sure that we're following some best practices to keep them secure over time. A report done by wpscan.org in 2019 showed that out of 3,972 documented vulnerabilities, 52% of them were caused by out of date or compromised plugins. Now that doesn't mean that 52% of all WordPress plugins are unsafe, but it means that, out of all the times that WordPress sites became vulnerable within the study, the cause was traced back to a problem with a plugin. The simplest and most straightforward way to prevent these kinds of problems is to update the plugins on your site consistently. When you log in to your WordPress website, check the left-hand navigation menu. If there's a number beside the word plugins, that's the number of plugins that have an update ready for you to grab. These updates typically mean that there is either a new…

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