Topic
WordPress Security, Speed and SEO
Keeping your site safe, making it fast, helping people find it, and fixing it when something goes wrong.
A good WordPress site is safe, fast and easy to find. None of these needs a developer: most of the gains come from a few sensible habits and settings. And when something does go wrong, the most common errors have well-known fixes.
What this topic covers
- Security: passwords, two-step login, updates and the settings that matter, in WordPress security basics.
- Speed: hosting, caching, images and plugins, in how to speed up a slow WordPress site.
- SEO: what Google says matters, and what WordPress already does for you, in WordPress SEO basics.
- Troubleshooting: the critical error message, white screens, 500 errors and database connection errors, in how to fix common WordPress errors.
Guides in this topic
01
Fix common errors
Plain-English fixes for the critical error message, the white screen, 500 errors, database connection errors, memory…
02
Security basics
Ten practical steps, drawn from WordPress's own hardening guide, that protect most sites from most problems.
03
Speed up WordPress
Eight practical fixes for a slow WordPress site, in the order that usually gives the biggest gain for the least effort.
04
SEO basics
What Google itself says matters for search, what WordPress already does for you, and the settings and habits that help…