Hardening WordPress at WordPress Community Meetup

Hardening WordPress at WordPress Community Meetup - Mar 2020

Today spoke about hardening WordPress at the WordPress meetup. It's a nice experience as the audience were from mixed backgrounds (developing, marketing, product management, etc).

My slides and links are available in the Pinboard. I have also shared an actionable checklist to harden a WordPress instance, that anyone can use in the form of the Restyaboard app (Restyaboard similar to Trello but open source and can self-host).

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