With Kate Newbill In the Beginner Developer track

Description: How much money and credibility would you lose if your website went down for a week? A day? An hour? Let’s take a look at some of the most common things that can go wrong with a WordPress site and discuss plans and processes to prevent disaster.

Intended audience: Business owners who use WordPress for their websites; beginning/intermediate WP site managers.

Learning Outcomes

• create an action plan covering most common issues that could befall their site(s)
• know how to increase security by making it more difficult for hackers to break in
• have an independent backup plan not dependent on their webhost, so that they can move or restore the site at any time
• have resources available to help in case the site faces problems too big for a backup to fix ( i.e., hacked with no clean backup; host goes out of business and takes site down.

Note: This is not a sales pitch for anyone’s services. There will be a legitimate list of resources (no affiliate links) to help business owners prevent disaster and, in worst cases, recover from it. I’ll cover both free and premium solutions and discuss why I suggest each.