About

About me

I'm Stu. I work as a WordPress administrator and hosting specialist. Over the years I've looked after everything from personal blogs and startup projects up to multisite setups for larger organisations with compliance requirements to meet. I've worked through compromised sites, botched updates, performance problems, server fires at 3am, and every flavour of security incident you can reasonably have on a WordPress site.

This book is what I have learned along the way, written down.

I built Protect My WP because this kind of knowledge deserves better than scattered Stack Overflow threads, blog posts from 2019, or an AI chatbot that only helps if you already know what to ask. It belongs in one place, kept up to date, and written by somebody who actually does the work.

About the book

Protect My WP is a living reference. It is designed to sit open in a browser tab while you work, get updated as WordPress changes, and expand as new threats and fixes become relevant.

Each chapter covers a specific area of WordPress security and administration. They're modular, so you can jump to whichever is most relevant right now. There are no magic plugins in here, and no tool that makes all the work go away. What you will find is the things that actually work, explained well enough that you can make sensible decisions for your own sites.

You buy it once. Every update to the book after that, for the lifetime of the book, is included.

Getting in touch

If there is something missing, something you think is wrong, or a topic you'd like to see covered, please say so. Email me at [email protected] and I'll do my best to work it in.

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