Since its inception in 2003, WordPress has undergone continual hardening so its core software can address and mitigate common security threats, including the Top 10 list identified by The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) as common security vulnerabilities.

WordPress is a free and open source content management system (CMS). It is the most widely-used CMS software in the world and it powers more than 35% of the top 10 million websites, giving it an estimated 62% market share of all sites using a CMS.

In a recent study done by Sucuri, around 90% of all the hacked content management systems that they investigated and helped fix in 2018 were WordPress sites.  If you rely on your website for your business - whether that means for marketing purposes, business operations, or anything important - protecting your asset is crucial.

Just like offline businesses - thieves can break into your business.  Except when it comes to online security - you may not even know that there’s an intruder in your site or using your site until sometimes months or years later.  This is why it's essential to be proactive.

Please understand that WordPress sites don’t get hacked because of WordPress original code, but due to backdoors from 3rd party code.

This 60 minute webinar will teach you what you need to do to help protect your website from being hacked.

Course curriculum

    1. #1 Way Hackers Hack WordPress Sites And How To Fix It In a Few Clicks

    2. Watch Me Hack A WORDPRESS Website In Minutes

    1. Introduction To WordPress Security

    2. Backdoors

    3. 12 Common Website Backdoors

    4. Webhosting

    5. What Is Web Hosting?

    6. WordPress Login

    7. Security Plugins

    8. What Are WordPress Security Plugins?

    9. 2-Factor-Authentication

    10. What Is 2-Step (Two-Factor) Authentication

    11. Hotlinking

    12. Password Protection

    13. What Is Password Protection in WordPress?

    14. Lesson Quiz

    1. Webinar Survey

    2. Thank you

About this course

  • Free
  • 18 lessons
  • 1 hour of video content

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John A. Smith

📍 Atlanta, GA
 📧 [email protected]

🎓 Objective

Motivated cybersecurity enthusiast with hands-on WordPress website security training. Seeking opportunities to help small businesses and organizations secure their websites, prevent cyberattacks, and maintain data privacy.

🧠 Education & Certifications

National Cybersecurity Training Academy
Certificate of Completion – WordPress Website Security
 Completed: 2025

Key training topics:

  • Website threat identification & mitigation
  • Backdoor detection and malware scanning
  • WordPress hardening best practices
  • Two-factor authentication setup & management
  • Plugin, theme, and hosting security configuration
  • Website backup and incident response

💼 Technical Skills

Category

Skills

Web Security

Vulnerability scanning, malware detection, WAF configuration

WordPress Security

Securing wp-admin, plugin/theme auditing, user role management

Tools

Wordfence, Sucuri, WPScan, SiteCheck, Google Search Console

Networking Basics

Firewall rules, IP blocking, DNS & SSL setup

Other

Linux fundamentals, cPanel management, file integrity checks