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== Session Notes ==

WordPress Maintenance
*general WordPress security 
*Bill from Radical Designs - secure WordPress sites for progressive causes that might 
* John has product management experience and is looking to create bipartisan dialogue
* Sam runs support division 

Sites were getting hacked frequently starting in January. 

Best practices -
1. Upgrade your WordPress install 
2. Backup 

Good plugins are 
* backup buddy
* VaultPress 
* Wp-Db backup
* snapshot from WPMU Dev

Caching 
* W3 Total Cache

Security
* sucuri

ManageWP
* helps manage many sites all at once and do systems operations from the WordPress dashboard 

But a plugin for backups can cause issues. 

Start with a good host that will
* upgrade your WordPress site
* backup your files 
* backup your database
* caching
* setup CDN
* monitoring 


Electric Embers does a good amount of WordPress hosting

For security - 
* adding security layers for the Wp-admin screen
* use Sucuri for malware scanning 

Is vaultpress open source? What open source solutions are out there?

If your site gets hacked,

Monitoring services include
* nagios
* zabbix
* pingdom
* snort (needs to be installed)