Care and Feeding of your Open Source CMS
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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)