How to Secure your Food Blog

Welcome back to the Food Blogger Pro podcast! In this episode, Bjork talks with Andrew Wilder from Blog Tutor about blog security.

When you're starting and maintaining your food blog, there are so many things to do. From getting your website designed just right to making that batch of double chocolate cookies 5 times to make it perfect, a food blogger pretty much always has a full plate (har har).

So when someone tells you that you should take some of your precious, precious time and use it to create strong passwords and back up your blog, I'll admit that I'm not the first person to jump up and down in excitement.

However, these things are so, so important. It only takes one small event - which are often caused by factors out of your control - to bring your blog down. And if you don't have it all backed up, you could lose all of your hard work just like that.

Andrew Wilder specializes in blog security, and today he's here to tell us what we need to do to make sure our blogs are safe from both intentional and unintentional harm.

In this really important interview, Andrew shares:

• How he transitioned from being a studio lighting designer to a food blog security master
• The two most important things you can do for your blog's security
• How databases work and why you need to back them up
• What tools he recommends for your website backups
• Whether or not you should use your hosting company's backups
• Why you should use a password manager
• Why you should update your WordPress software and plugins
• What two-factor authentication is and why you should be using it
• How he helps webmasters keep their websites live and secure all the time

Resources:

• Eating Rules
• Blog Tutor
• VaultPress
• UpDraft Plus
• BackUp Buddy
• CodeGaurd
• 1Password
• KeePass
• LastPass
• WordFence
• iThemes Security
• Login Security Solution
• Google Authenticator for iPhone and Android
• Duo Security
• Deals & Discounts page on FBP

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