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How to choose secure WordPress plugins - WordPress Tutorial
From the course: WordPress: Building a Secure Site
How to choose secure WordPress plugins
- [Instructor] Choosing secure plugins can be a challenge but is completely possible. Plugins are one of the most important, complex interesting and powerful parts of a WordPress website. Plugins are also one of the most common ways that WordPress websites are made vulnerable. Basically a WordPress plugin is very similar to an app on your phone. It's a piece of third party software that you can choose to install or uninstall on your website in order to receive some extra functionality of some kind. As of recording this, there are over 55,000 plugins in the WordPress repository and that doesn't include the one sold independently. When choosing plugins, we have to make sure that we're choosing secure ones. And I have a few tips for making sure that any plugin you use is safe. Number one, try to limit the plugins you download to ones in the WordPress repository. All this means is that the plugin has been vetted by a team of…
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