WordPress Meetup: WordPress Security 101

The WordPress Helsinki meetup group aims to bring people of all skill levels together, from beginners to WordPress professionals.

This month’s meetup will focus on the security of WordPress. Our guest speaker, Otto Kekäläinen, CEO of Seravo Oy (https://seravo.fi/) and member of the MariaDB Foundation (https://mariadb.org/), describes his talk as follows:

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.

There will be room for questions and open discussion after the talk. Drinks and snacks will be provided by redandblue (https://redandblue.fi/).

Agenda

17:15 – Doors open

17:30 – Opening words

17:40 – WordPress security 101: what is important – and what is not / Otto Kekäläinen, Seravo

19:00 – Drinks & networking

The meetup will take place at SC5’s auditorium located on the 6th floor in Kamppi at Urho Kekkosen Katu 7B, 00100 Helsinki.

If you have any questions, leave a comment or contact us directly through the contact form on Meetup.com. You can also find us on Twitter (@WPHelsinki (https://twitter.com/WPHelsinki)) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/WPHelsinki/?fref=ts). If you prefer a more direct approach, you can find most of the community members on the #meetups-helsinki channel on Slack (https://www.meetup.com/WPHelsinki/pages/Slack/).

See you on Wednesday!

The WordPress Helsinki Organisers,
Marco, Niko and Sonja

Slack

The local Finnish Slack community is a great place to meet other WordPress enthusiasts online and get help and advice with WordPress-related issues.

We’ve written a brief introduction on our meetup page and hope you join if you haven’t done so already: https://www.meetup.com/WPHelsinki/pages/Slack/

You can find us on the #meetups-helsinki channel or chat with @marco, @niko, @sonja directly if you have any questions to the organisers.

Community hashtags on Twitter

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Topic Suggestions

If you’d like to speak at an upcoming meetup, leave a comment on our meetup board or contact us on the #meetups-helsinki channel on Slack: https://www.meetup.com/WPHelsinki/messages/boards/thread/49133846

WordCamp Helsinki 2017

The local meetup group in Helsinki is currently planning a WordCamp (https://central.wordcamp.org/) for next spring. It will be a two day event comprised of talks and workshops focusing on WordPress.

If you’d like to know more or perhaps even volunteer (https://2017.helsinki.wordcamp.org/2017/02/17/call-for-volunteers/), you can ask around at the next meetup or leave a message on the #meetups channel on Slack (https://www.meetup.com/WPHelsinki/pages/Slack/). If you want to sign up for the newsletter or contact the organisers directly, the official website can be found at this address: https://2017.helsinki.wordcamp.org/