WordPress security 101: what is important – and what is not

WordPress has reputation of weak security and the web is full of guides and plugins to enhance WordPress security. Unfortunately some advice is misleading or just false sales pitch. Understanding what is truly essential for security and what is irrelevant can be difficult. In this talk I explain, based on my experience of maintaining hundreds of WordPress sites, what I don’t consider relevant and what you don’t need to worry about, and what are the actually important things you need to care for.

This time WPTurku has a guest speaker, Otto Kekäläinen, who is the CEO of Seravo Oy and also works for the MariaDB Foundation. Otto has been using Linux and other open source technologies for over 15 years, and has been advocating open source for almost as long. Otto’s first blog in 2004 was made with WordPress, and since the inception of WP-palvelu.fi Otto has been deeply involved with WordPress.

We're a group for local WordPress developers, designers, publishers, bloggers and newbies who get together to share our knowledge and experience, and to meet other WordPress users in the area. This WordPress Meetup is open to all who love WordPress -- join us!

Don't hesitate to join even if you are a beginner or hobbyist. Every meetup is a great one to start. You'll get to know everybody and have your say on upcoming meetups. Welcome to the Turku WordPress Meetup!

Keep in contact!

Community – http://meetup.com/Turku-WordPress-Meetup/ Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/groups/wpturku
Twitter – @WPTurku (https://twitter.com/WPTurku), #WPTurku (https://twitter.com/hashtag/WPTurku?src=hash) / #WPFI Slack – #meetups-turku

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Other Local Communities in Finland

Helsinki
Community – http://wphelsinki.com/ Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/WPHelsinki/ Twitter – @WPHelsinki (http://twitter.com/WPHelsinki), #WPHelsinki (https://twitter.com/hashtag/WPHelsinki?src=hash) / #WPFI Slack – #meetups-helsinki

Jyväskylä
Community – http://wpjkl.fi/ Twitter – @WPJyvaskyla (https://twitter.com/WPJyvaskyla), #WPJKL (https://twitter.com/hashtag/WPJKL?src=hash) / #WPFI Slack – #meetups-jyvaskyla

Tampere
Community – http://meetup.com/Tampere-WordPress-Meetup/ Twitter – @WPTampere (http://twitter.com/WPTampere), #WPTampere (https://twitter.com/hashtag/WPTampere?src=hash) / #WPFI Slack – #meetups-tampere

Oulu
Community – https://www.meetup.com/Oulu-WordPress-Meetup/ Twitter – @WPOulu (http://twitter.com/WPOulu), #WPOulu (https://twitter.com/hashtag/WPOulu?src=hash) / #WPFI Slack – #meetups-oulu

WordCamp Finland
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/WordCampFinland/ Twitter – @WordCampFinland (http://twitter.com/WordCampFinland), #WCFI (https://twitter.com/hashtag/WCFI?src=hash) / #WPFI Slack – #wordpress-finland