 So you got yourself an Elementor and WordPress website now. Let's protect it. What's up everyone? I'm Jeff from Lightbox and in this video I'm going to show you three really easy and fast things that you could do for your WordPress website to fully Protect it have a lockdown and make sure nothing bad happens to it now real quick scary fact There are these little evil things called bots. They are crawling your websites all the time and Trying to get in to do their evil deeds and the scary thing is You might not know this but your website is probably getting crawled and having attempted hacks on a daily basis Sometimes dozens or even hundreds of times a day. I mean, that's how they work And if you aren't like really monitoring it and doing deep dives on a regular basis You might have already been hacked and don't even know it and usually it's when a client or customer calls and Says, hey, I think you've been hacked which is kind of embarrassing The thing is that's how most hacks work They don't want you to know that you've been hacked that way they can stay in there and do whatever it is They're trying to do but there are ways to prevent this from happening to protect your website And they're actually very easy. I got three things that I use and I use these on all of our websites all the websites We built all the websites we managed I'm going to show you what I use and we'll be used over here a light box for all of our websites And it's actually very easy. They're all free to use and it probably is only going to take a couple minutes tops to set up So let's go ahead and get started Real quick. All right, we're going to add a few plugins here So start off by going over to your plugins select on add new From here, we're going to search for word fence and that is the big dog right there That is the one we want to start off with in fact with word fence You're good to go pretty much. This is pretty much all you need now You got a lot of other security plugins used the reason why I go for word fence is because it's got a powerful firewall Very few of the other plugins have this firewall has a malware malware scan It's really easy to set up It doesn't plaster your your website with all those ads like by the premium version like some Plugins like some free plug is due. Yo, you know It's really simple to use and easy to set up. So let me go ahead and show you that real quick select click on install Select on activate and once it's been activated You're going to get a prompt like this and this is really important to put your main email What I like about this is anytime anything happens fishy with my website. I get notified by it So you always know what's going on I'm going to go ahead and use one of my emails right here and Just go ahead and select on this and we're going to choose. No, I don't want to get email alerts And you do have an option for a premium key. I'm going to be honest I really feel that the free version is good enough for a majority websites I think that's what makes war friends so amazing. Of course when you Start to get, you know, build your website up to to like a higher level That's getting a lot more sales and that, you know You want to get more of those features in it's good But out the box the free version is incredible and yeah, see you can see right here We don't have all kinds of ads. This will tell you Right here what's going on, but that's about it a lot of free plugins like Yoast and those ones They're terrible because they'll plaster your back in with all kinds of ads all kinds of notifications notifications that are super annoying this one right here you get an option to keep it updated automatically I do yes on this one. Normally. I don't do automatic updates, but for Wordfence, I do keep it up today. I've never had a problem. So to get started go back to your dashboard You walk through The setup wizard right here to show you a bit about it up here on the top You're going to see this notification. So this is where we want to start to set up Click on there to configure and this is going to be setting up your firewall that firewall is so important to have Alright, let's go ahead and continue and That is it right there and you can see right now to start off. You're in learning mode. So Wordfence is learning the website right here They could go ahead and click on these to go ahead and optimize a firewall a little bit better Let's download this file They want you to download a backup file This is all good to go. Just select on continue And that is it give it a give it about a day and you're going to see these numbers go up because right now it's setting Itself up. It's in learning mode So with this right here, you're pretty much good to go like that is it your website is secure You got the firewall set up. You got your email notifications coming in in case of something is going on if if you got like boss are trying to constantly come into your website, they're going to get blocked and Wordfence is just going to block them and they're going to notify you then they're going to put put a block on it And if by some chance Somebody does get into your website and they change a file. Maybe they insert some Virus and malicious code where fence is going to notify you on that it's going to let you know There's been a file change and it's going to let you delete it's going to let you restore the old file So you'll be able to clean up the hack if it was in there. It's amazing and it's free This is by far the best to start off with but there's a couple more things we could do to make it even more secure The next thing I'm going to show you is vital as well. So go back over to your plugins Let's select on new And right here, we still got the thing coming up for word friends It's doing its machine learning right now. So you can just click on dismiss. It's good to go. So from here type in WPS hide login and This is the plug-in. We're looking for WPS hide login. Go ahead and install that now what this does is all Wordpress websites by default in order to log into the back end is your domain so and so dot com slash Wp admin or slash Wp login and that's how you get back to your back end to log into your website The thing is all hackers know that their boss that they create are Constantly trying to hack your website by using the WP admin or the slash login So we need to change that because once you change that you're going to throw off half the bots out there They're trying to attack your website because these things they they know they know that they just need to do the slash Wp admin and then they'll keep trying to hit passwords and keep trying to figure out your passwords So we're going to completely divert them with this plug-in also free Super easy to set up. So just select on activate right here. Let's get it going And you could go here to your settings So what this does is it actually takes me back to my general settings right down here underneath settings But down here at the bottom. We have a new option right here. That's the URL login And this is where we could change it all you got to do is change this one right here You could put in whatever you want to give you that access to the back end and we're just going to say Goodbye hackers All right, and make sure you also copy that down and keep it back up on that hit save change and that's it so Now if I want to log into my website, I would put in so-and-so Com slash whatever I put in there, which was good by hackers pull whatever you wanted there That is going to divert at least 50% of the bots trying to get into your website one more thing to do go back to your plugins select on add new and Let's just go ahead and put it on it And we're going to get a few options that come up right here And this is the one that I use WP activity login. Let's go ahead and install that By the way to one thing I look at whenever I use any kind of plug-in Just for reference I look at of course how many active installs and I also look at the ratings But one thing I look at to is last updated This is really important because we want to make sure we only use plugins that are have an active development team behind it Keeping it up to date and secure. Let's go ahead and activate this now What activity log does is it logs every single activity that happens to your website anything that happens? It's going to let you know what's happened. All right, so let's go ahead and run the wizard on this one So start the wizard off and you might want the basic one not the geeky level You don't need that one. Let's if you want the geek level. I'm a geek. So I like geek stuff. All right No, we use okay This one is asking you if you use the default WP admin, but we just changed that so we do not use that No, we so we want to put yes, we use other pages to log into WordPress next Can visitors register? For ours. No now if you're going to have a WooCommerce website or a membership website, then you would select yes And how long do you want to keep your data pretty straightforward? Let's keep all data and That's it finish Now, let's say somebody logs into your website. Let's say somebody Tries to log into your website. Let's say this person is trying these pages that don't exist we can start to see that stuff so go over here to activity log and You're going to start to see every single action that happens on your website is here This is really helpful to whether you're a developer building a website for client You could also like see what's happening on the client side and if you're a client and you have a website and you want to see what your developers are doing on your website or Your shop managers or anybody that's on your website. You could also go back here and you could take a look and figure out What's happening on your website now there is the free version is great The premium version is going to help you out with filters will make the user ability a whole lot better on it But the free version for 99% of the time is good enough on this one thing I like about these three plugins right here. All three of them are very well built. They work great together They fully secure a website and the free versions are amazing. Of course the paid versions for WordFence and for WP activity log are going to give you more features But if you're starting off and this is for your own personal business website or you're building a site that's small or medium This is perfect. This is going to be your start right here. This is what we use on all of our websites Hope this video helps you out lock down your website secure it make sure nothing happens real quick bonus two more things I can't really show you because this is something you should contact your hosting about there are two things that you Should also have make sure you have an SSL certificate this is going to give you that extra layer of encryption if you see the the green little lock box by the URLs because there's an SSL and if you've ever gone to website and it says This site is not secure and gives you that big warning. That's probably because there is no SSL on there So make sure you got a SSL and make sure you have daily backups Contact your hosting and they should be able to set you up with those if you have decent hosting any decent hosting Offers those for free. So if your hosting doesn't have it you should probably looking to get another host I use cloudways. I like cloudways. There's a lot of good hosting out there. It is well worth it Well, I hope this video helps if it did, you know, all that good YouTube stuff like subscribe, you know, hit the bell notification but for real Scribing liking and if you have any questions drop them in the comments. I get back to everyone So if you have a question or if you would like to see me Do something else that will help you just drop it in the comments. Thank you. I'll be back again soon a more web design related content Elements or tips tricks and hacks and stuff like that. All right. Thank you. Bye