At this meeting we discussed 2 essential WordPress plugins: Wordfence and BackWPup. Wordfence offers comprehensive settings to control security, anti-spam, and more. We explored all the different options and saw how Wordfence shows visitors information in real time. A useful report is the ‘missing pages’ which alerts us to possible problems on a site. We then looked at the backup plugin “BackWPup”. This free plugin has a variety of options, including scheduled backups, and backup to remote locations such as Amazon S3.
Next meeting: October 21, subject to be determined.