Care and Feeding of your Open Source CMS

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)