 Yeah, I don't know how most of you feel, but I'm like it's Sunday. It's 9 to 45. I should still be asleep So when it comes to getting a side if you're a new user, you're like, yeah, I've got a new Nice to send a pretty What am I supposed to do with it now? I? Have it. It's online. I don't know. Let's see. Oh There we go. I'm actually not from Miami not from even, Florida. I'm from southern Illinois flew down on Wednesday to enjoy the weather since it we had snow when I left home I Do support for a little awesome plug-in called give I also do support for the Yoast products I am one of the lead organizers for The Southern Illinois WordPress group and I also teach beginners and intermediate WordPress Websites are not Build them and forget them. I see so many times of yeah, I've got a website. I've not really done anything since 1832 Or at least how it looks So many times people are often like yeah, we have it built we had someone did an awesome job But we don't do anything with it anymore and I also do a lot of website security And I'm like, okay. Let me just take a look peek around your server. See what's going on and there's like 320 files That's a like thought xyz 456 and you open it up and Would you see the code is typically in the base 64 encode and your first on it? Yeah I've seen some sites where people were like Yeah, I haven't logged in or anything in a couple of years and it's really moving slow Go and look at the server. It's a torrent site There was over a hundred gigs of torrent movie files hidden in the server That's why they're not to build them and forget them because you want your money to be paying for your stuff And to keep people coming to your business online And there's really simple steps that you can do That your designers and developers sometimes don't tell you because they're like, yeah, I built it I took your money here. You go have fun by and if you're writing your own content if you are doing the I'm having somebody else build it, but I want to take care of my online presence You really need to make sure you understand the dashboard Make sure you understand the difference between a post and a page Make sure you know what it means to publish Before you're given the range to just go There's so many tutorials out there and for your Designer developer freelancer who build it for you can also give you the steps to help you Understand what it is you're doing before you go out to do it on your own There's simple steps Everybody should be doing and the first thing is to remember if you didn't click save didn't happen I've seen so many and it's just like when we were all we're writing our term papers for college Or we have like the seven pages to our paper and we're on page six and we got like 5,000 words and it's three o'clock in the morning and oh dear god. I'm done. Let me close my laptop bonkers I forgot to save And you open it back up praying that everything's still there and you have a way turn It's the same in WordPress. You have to click save or publish or didn't happen And it's good to do that often Like I know when I'm writing a really long post all every couple of paragraphs I'll go up and click save or if I'm going to run to the bathroom or grab a drink or something like that I always go ahead and just click save because it doesn't hurt anything To click save 500 times and it's make sure you get to keep your information because There was one time in the very beginning. I was I had probably about 1400 words on the blog post I was making it's really on a roll and power flickered and it shut down My router and rebooted and with that you always have to re-log in toward press when your Router changes and I lost everything And all it takes once if you do any of that to remember to always do that And equally important is backups There's so many times people and I know even the Big-time developers time and from time to time do a little what's called cowboy coding Which means you're going right on to your live website life surgery server and changing stuff 90% of the time when you do that live cowboy coding if you don't make a backup first Something will go wrong Murphy's law has lots of fun when it comes to that And it's always good when you make a backup You always have something to fall back on so nothing is ever Permanent when you have a backup is you could go in and you could Make a backup and change the theme change your head or I don't like that blue Let's change it to green and do all kinds of stuff and then two hours later. You're looking at this and you're like Where did I do on the steps of this because I don't like what I did 20 minutes ago And you have no idea in a way How far to go back on what you did so you could just go back to your backup and start back with a clean slate again And then back up and back up often because of the fact You know you could get hacked Something could go wrong with your server Something when you're changing something Could go wrong and if you have the backup nothing's ever permanent also Save it to someplace other than your server Save it to your computer send it to Dropbox and it to Amazon to your email To anything other than your server because if something happens to your server So, you know, I've got all my information on my computer. It's all safe there What happens if there's a fire? What happens if your computer gets stolen? What happens if you're hosting company? crashes if you only have those files in one spot You're putting all your eggs in a basket And then if you have them scheduled like I had mine to run about two o'clock in the morning every night You don't have to mess with it. You just know they're done. And if something does go wrong You have it set up to you get an email So you wake up in the morning go. Oh that Backup didn't go completely as planned. Let me go in and rerun one The backup plug-ins the three most popular backup buddy up draft plus and back WP up There are others out there, these are just the ones that I have personally used myself and then updates I'm sorry Duplicator, yes duplicator is another one updates. This is one of the most important things That you're never told when you first get your website Updates are like the most important thing to ever do with your site other than putting new content on it Update core update your plug-ins update your themes update everything almost all updates are because of A security vulnerability found or they've added new features either way It's needed to be updated there are times where the developer will go back and look at his code and be like Oh, I could write that better and then change it around and then send it to an update But most of the time it is security or feature related most malware infections are due to lack of updating I've seen many sites that Will be hacked because they're still on wordpress 2.8 And I have seen that in the past year Now speaking of updates one of the most popular places to get themes Especially in some plugins is in Nevada. Oh, sorry. Let's get the screen on that one For the updates when you log on you'll see dashboard and you'll see a little red circle with a number in it That red circle means how many updates you have and if you highlight on the dashboard It'll show updates and you click on that. That's how you can go into update your plugins and core and themes Except for if you use invado, which is code canyon theme forest Like a beta theme Rev slider is to the more common ones How they run their updates is they have a little box you could check At your download screen that will send you an email when there are updates There are some like a beta has if you go into their Aveda settings on your dashboard where you add in your License number and it will send updates that way, but they do not send them to the dashboard like core does And if you don't get the emails or you don't have it set up You won't know when it needs to be updated And that was one of the biggest reasons why They had such an issue with the rev slider malware, which happened A year ago october and there are still sites that are being cleaned even this week Because they don't know those plugins are built into the themes Didn't know that there was updates and just let it go And this is one of the main things you need to stay on top of And it's security is also a big important thing when it comes to maintenance Um, it's more important to secure before something happens Because oftentimes they're like, oh my site only gets 40 visitors a day. It won't get hacked Oh, I just have a knitting site. No one pays attention to it. It won't get hacked One of my test sites not indexed by google No people seeing it nothing had a ddo s attack on it It can happen to any site no matter big or small And it's easier to take care of beforehand just by Doing some um simple measures like updating and a few other things That it is to pay three four five hundred dollars to get the site cleaned afterwards One of the biggest things to do security rise Is for your login don't let it be admin Don't let your password be password. I don't think I want to be cool and I'm going to do capital a di m number one And passwords pa 55 i'm going to change it up This is just as easy as red as password To the bots this is password. They will figure it out in like 0.2 seconds Now if you have something like couple x 3 4 at sign z y x Three seven and a total looks like someone just grabbed your keys and went like this and came up with something those are less to be hacked because The heart it is for you to remember The heart it is for a bot to break And for people who will be like Oh, um, I only need one password because I can't remember at all Um Say you have this one You use your email and you use one password for everything. We'll say your passwords. I love cookies You got your website and it's you know michelle at gmail.com and I love cookies is my password And one of the bots figure out You know Your login is michella gmail.com and your your passwords. I love cookies Let's see if I can get into their email address gmail.com michella gmail.com. I love cookies. Oh, I got in Well, I you know always carry around this thing and that's pretty much where I live my life And I even have mobile banking because I like to check what my account is on my phone But remember I only like to use one password and I see You know, I use we'll say Um Regents bank and they see on my emails that I use regents bank So we go to regents bank calm and let's try to log in michelle at gmail.com. I love cookies No, that didn't work. Let's do capital. I love cookies. I'm into your email. I'm into your bank account Going through your bank account. I know You've got um stocks and you use ameritrade Let's go over to ameritrade. See if I can't get in that way I love cookies. No I capital i capital l capital c Let's do cookies is zero zero Just got into your stock information Within five minutes Was able to go from Finding out your username and password on wordpress To knowing all the financial information That's why you use separate passwords For everything and then only give users the access they need say you have Four or five ghost writers who do work for you But you want to make sure you read their posts before they go out You don't trust anyone to do the live posting They don't need an admin account They don't need to be able to access your theme settings. They don't even need to be able to post their life They only need authors But they think they're going to tell you they need admin access Don't give it to them. You're the website owner. You tell them how much they can get in For this also if say you're just having a person write one post for you Or you want them just to add two pictures to a slider and then they're never getting into the site again Once you're they're done Delete out their username and password delete out their account. They don't need in So they don't need to have access to it anymore It's a simple thing you can do Just to keep The access down And then file detection. This is one of the really cool things That could be done So you could notice if anything has changed. There's a lot of plugins out there that does it. I think security work fence has it Um, the security scanner plugin also has it Right now we have to set up. We're not on wordpress.org yet. We're in the process of library But if you set it up right now if I write in our article, but I want to give someone else a live line I'm able to do that as long as they've been established as An editor or contributor or some aspect Is there a way to give someone a buy line? without them being A contributor or editor or one of those levels It's a little more tricky um Talk to me after Plugins that I recommend for security. I think security. They have a free and a pro version Security firewall Wordfence jetpack has Combination of brooper tech and vault press All of these Are better than nothing Do not put them all on at the same time and turn all the features on if you want to use like I think security And security firewall make sure there's both plugins are not doing all the same thing like You'll want to make sure That the login attempts is done by one plugin Scanning is done by the other plugin don't have them all doing The same thing at one time because they're just going to conflict with each other and it's not going to work But there are ways you can Do together with these but just make sure They're divided out because I've seen some sites where They have 14 different security plugins on them and they have all turned wide open and their site just doesn't work It's pretty much like on your regular computer if you go to put norton anti virus avg antivirus and capersky on at the same time It's just going to growl and yell at you And then keep the plugins and themes you have on your site Only the ones that are active. I've seen some sites where there's like 14 themes on there. You can only have one theme active at a time It's good to always keep a one backup, which I use whatever the latest and greatest Default theme right now is 2016 You don't need all them on there because you're not going to use them and all that does Is when it comes on the server side Is you'll see folders of the 14 plugins. That's 14 different. I mean 14 themes That's 14 different ways it can get access especially if you're not updating these themes. You're not using And plugins are the same way especially If you're wanting to keep a list of the ones that are on the repo They're they have favorites now that you can mark And it's so easy to say like I do use the word fits scanner a lot, but I don't typically keep it on the site all the time So I'll go in I'll install it or run the scanner a couple of times make sure everything's okay, and then I delete it back out And then since it's all my favorites that when I want to go at it again I just go to plugins go to my favorites download it again because that's not keeping Load on my servers. Well the more plugins and more images and more stuff you have This lower your site will run as well And then my way of scanning do I need it? It depends on how you feel if you want something monitoring your site every day 24 7 Yes, if you want to be like with how I am and just run it every now and then you can put it on and then take it back off But that's how you feel and then also security scanner virus total they have Offsite where you can run as well without having to use one of their plugins And when you decide to make changes, there are some things to also consider Do your due diligence when looking at themes and plugins I've seen there's Once out there I call them more of your cookie cutter themes that they can do everything But do you need a theme that does everything? probably not Um because there's the ones where they have WooCommerce built in and they have gravity forms built in and they have a slider built in Or there's something that has three different sliders built in. Do you need three different slider plugins on your site? probably not read through them and There's times it might take two or three days before you find really one you like and that's fine And also there you could find the ones that you like Put them on your site test it around realize it's not something you like and then take it back off That is fine as well, but do due diligence and testing before you commit to one and then Not everything is pretty Only keep what you're using again And the miscellaneous sayings your designer developer might not have told you SEO This is one of the most hottest topics Spoken right now when it comes to online business and branding Of course, I recommend Yoast first and foremost. They sent me a paycheck All in one SEO is also a good choice it mainly Test them both see which one you like the most And don't let your site get too lonely like I talked about before where the girl had logged on in four years and she had You know over a hundred gigs of movies on her server that she had no idea about It's they also call it um turning into a zombie site and the zombie sites, you know work for other websites And they don't work for you anymore And if you do have questions, which even some of them were developer bigger developers will have questions because You know, they might work with just this and have no idea about this Where do you go for answers the codex dot word practice dot org? It's your first and foremost place to find out the beginning information about getting into wordpress and the dot org repose themes and plugins the best place to find information though Is go right to it wordpress.org slash themes wordpress.org slash plugins All of the plugins on there and all the themes have support built right in there twitter I've seen so many times i'm working on this wordpress site I'm using easy digital downloads, and I can't figure out x And I tweet it out and typically within five minutes. You'll see four or five answers getting sent facebook Facebook has got many different um wordpress groups advanced wordpress we've got We're over 18,000 now, aren't we members all about wordpress genesis wordpress There's um ones for the beta theme One for beginners intermediate divi Just developers just theme designers you could find a wordpress group to answer your questions And there's many different admins for those groups here with you today Third party website wp beginner is a wealth of information Wp 101 bob wp all great sources of information To help you with your website And there's more than just wordpress specific maintenance you should do Always use complex passwords again not just with your website But on your computer with your different logins on the internet And then never use the same password on all the logins Never email passwords Put in a text document use a Password manager to send them don't just put them, you know my login is da da da da da Use a password for um for um Manager last pass is free to use, but they also have mobile integration, which is 12 dollars well spent a year One password key pass These make it to where I use both last pass and one password I don't remember any passwords anymore except for to log into those And those has two separate passwords as well. They're kind of the same but a bit different But this is to where when I go to a site, I also have them both on my cell phone as well And they both have where you can use your thumb instead of typing in a password To where I'm like You know my password for my bank is like 30 characters But I don't need to remember it because I could just hold my thumb Go to insert password and it does it for me If any login has two factor authentication option Use it like where they send a Password to your cell phone or you have to use a google authenticator um wordpress has a Has it built in with jetpack and there's also the cleft plugin And you can also like on your cell phone where it has where you can use your um touchpad Those are all different styles of two factor authentication. It just makes it safer to For your information if you Use an antivirus My mac right here has kapersky on it and a lot of people say oh max don't need it I have no idea how many times kapersky has made the lion roar Of going to different websites or with me cleaning a site Of saying that there's a trojan trying to get on my computer Be conscious when using public wi-fi If there's not a password needed to get on it That means anybody can get on it Anybody can try to grab your information off of it You could use a vpn. I use uh cloak is just for max Tor guard is good site social hide my ass Interesting name actually works pretty well And Cloak is two nine. It's only for mac. It's two ninety nine a month And I absolutely love it. Yes One of the things that they can do is When you're on an open network, it's just like being on your work's open network All the computers are attached to this one router and they Um, there's different things where you could describe information off of different Computers attached to the same network Um, there's different scripts that can be ran that can do even key loggers for your sites They could go in and check the history Of where you've been at while on that network Um, which is a lot of times done in open wi-fi But if you're using a vpn what a vpn does is I log into this IP address to network What a vpn does it adds an extra layer right here So my computer has got to go to that I'm over here and then come back kind of like when you watch ncis or criminal minds or something like that And you see the tech guy watching the pings When you're using vpns and stuff like that it changes your pings of why it's harder to trace around for to get the information There's of course with those hackers are using more complex vpns and stuff like that Where these more just give one or two layers in between And yes The little pineapples That's just like for example when it comes to the sharing of information I have a good friend of mine Who every time travels to different areas almost every time his credit card information gets stolen By one way or another Because of being in a different area Because there's a lot of times on the pay at the pumps They have now key loggers on those hackers do And again update update update The mac updates windows updates, I know they take forever and they're so annoying When you just want to shut down your computer and they will let you because it tells you not to But they're still very important Back up everything back enough often I was the first I had my first mistake with this Um Where I had all my music and all my photos just on my laptop many years ago Um, I went to work my fiance went to work and our house got broken into and my laptop got stolen Luckily I had given my mother my old laptop Because I just bought one like about three weeks previous And she had all my pictures on that my old laptop as well But I didn't keep All my music on there and I had some very very very hard to find Um Music on there that I was never really there's still three or four songs. I was never able to get back because of The computer gets stolen now I have an external hard drive that's got everything I've got carbonite that has everything and I have a big costa account that has everything plus I keep stuff on I cloud and I push up to um Account ever note account to where I never will have that to happen again big costa is a online file storage Carbonite is actually a backup tool where it will run at night and back up your whole machine I'm sorry Are Oh, yep c-a-r-b-o-n i-t-e Sorry I did not realize that was a miss phone And in external hard drives. I actually keep two externals in my bag with different stuff on them And now I just bought a terabyte one for 79 dollars at best buy and that little sucker is fast And terabyte information is a lot to put on And any questions I'll also take it to the next page. My slides can be found at mlb.pw Slash wc m i a 60 Yes, sometimes when you go to update a plugin It will break another plugin or just break the whole site. I've had this to happen a few times number one Run a backup before you update Just because you could always roll back Another nice little tool that word impress makes is called wp rollback and it will roll back any plugin To where I've actually used it a couple times this past week. I had issues with a site um And you could put it on and it'll take it back Um through you don't have to go to that website trying to find the old to roll it back Um always test beforehand if you do have your site Set up on a testing environment Update it that way first just to make sure it doesn't break and then do your live site or then push it up to your live site But if you die if everything's just live make a backup Keep the idea of the wp rollback plugin fresh in your head to where if you do need to go backwards you always can And a lot of times if it breaks And if it's something like the first week first couple days, especially of an update Send a message to the developer of the plugin saying I have plugin x I have your plugin when I updated it plugin y went wonky I'm not for sure if it's now plugin conflict. Do you know anything? Have you tested this way? Please though when you are writing to these plugin support people Don't be you plug it broke my site Dietypes out of 10 it is something they're either not aware of or they are aware of and trying to make a fix for it And you putting something up there? Will help help them later And I will be in a happiness bar for like the next hour or so if anyone has any more questions