Announcing the WordPress Security Learning Center
Dear WordPress Community,
Today we have something amazing to share with you. Earlier this year we started a project to understand more about you and your needs. The site owners who use WordPress to run your personal and business websites.
What we discovered is that you are diverse individuals who rely heavily on WordPress and your websites to help you do the things that you are passionate about. You are also constantly learning and you have a strong desire to learn more about WordPress security to empower yourselves.
About 4 months ago we decided to deliver what the community clearly needs: A WordPress Security Learning Center. We all put our noses to the grindstone and worked as quickly and effectively as we could. We brought in video producers, designers, copywriters and security experts from around the community.
Today we are ready to announce the completion and official launch of our WordPress Security Learning Center.
The Learning Center starts with a solid introduction to WordPress security. Then it provides intermediate resources for those who want to delve a little deeper, including helping you understand security threats, and how to secure your working environment.
Our advanced content includes a detailed introduction to writing secure PHP code for developers. We have included screencasts and content showing how vulnerabilities are accidentally created, how they are exploited and how to fix them and avoid them in future. We cover XSS vulnerabilities, SQL Injection, File Upload vulnerabilities and more.
Then we went even further and created a few extras like a detailed introduction to networking and the OSI model complete with an awesome video, an explanation of how Tor works, how social engineering works and much more.
We are giving this resource away free to the community. There’s no catch. The content is all yours and there’s no “offer”, signup, subscription or anything like that – you don’t even have to give us your email address.
Simply visit our WordPress Security Learning Center now to get started learning how to secure your WordPress website, your online presence and your identity right now.
Over the coming weeks I will publish blog posts talking about some of the individual articles in the learning center and going into a bit more depth on some topics. We hope you enjoy using the Learning Center as much as we have enjoyed creating it. We look forward to regularly adding new content to help keep the community secure.
As I mentioned, this was an incredibly ambitious project and I’d like to thank our team and everyone involved, from our marketing lead to our developers who vetted the content and the designers, videographers, developers who implemented the project and everyone else involved. You know who you are and you absolutely rock. Thanks guys!!
Mark Maunder – Wordfence Founder/CEO.
Comments
9:15 am
Love the new learning center Wordfence team. Can't wait to dive into some of the content this weekend!
9:18 am
Wow! This sounds so good and I'm really looking forward to digging into the content :)
9:24 am
Congratulations! Sound amazing. Wordpress security is very important issue and according to my opinion there are not enough trusted sources to learn this issue.
9:31 am
Great Idea! This is really useful for explaining to clients why they need security on their website.
9:31 am
You dear people!
This is amazing and such a gift.
Thanks!
9:56 am
This is great news! I look forward to ingesting it all and making my site more secure.
Thank you!
10:03 am
Thank you, this is a fantastic initiative !
10:07 am
Thanks guys for this great work. Hope to come back to learn as often as neccessary!
10:33 am
Appreciate all that you do. This is an exciting and helpful offering! Thanks for helping us all understand what we need to do and know! Woo hoo!
12:04 pm
Wow, what a great idea and thanks for making it available to the public.
4:27 pm
Fantastic. This area is becoming more and more critical. Congrats to you and your team. Thanking you for keeping us safe in cyberspace!
9:10 pm
Cool.. Appreciate your hard word guys.
11:04 pm
Amazing! This is a really valuable resource to help make WordPress sites more secure. As a developer I will be paying special attention to the articles on how to write secure PHP code.
12:24 am
Fantastic job guys! This is an amazing and much needed resource. Thank you for your hard work.
1:52 am
Great work guys and you've built awesome resource so far, can't wait to dig into reading!
4:52 am
Nice date for the release! I have 2 weeks holiday in advance after today so as soon as I start getting bored will start reading in. Love this plugin anyway!
9:20 pm
This is really a valuable resource for every wordpress user. Ever since I started using Wordpress, the security of my website has been a serious issue for me. When I started using Wordfence, most of my problems were solved. And now with the Wordpress Security Learning Center, I'm looking forward to learn more about Wordpress (and website security in general). Thanks a lot.
8:17 am
Wow! This is awesome! I'm ready to dive in and check out the learning center. Thanks for taking the time to do this! I see it being a really valuable resource for all of us!
3:14 am
Sounds good. Looking forward to reading about it
12:43 pm
Thank you, awesome resource. Something to get me through the holidays :-)
9:41 pm
Great news guys! I'm sure it will help many webmasters with their wordpress security issues.