Secure WordPress is a resource I wanted to have myself, a compete checklist and walkthrough of all the security topics relating to self-hosted installations of WordPress. But since there was so little talk online about these topics (beyond the basics, which we do cover still) I decided to make it myself.
The History
The idea for Secure WordPress first came to me in about June of 2009. I’d been thinking of things I could write an eBook about to sell, and WordPress security just seemed like a great topic to cover.
I soon decided that it’d feel wrong to sell information that is so critical to WordPress bloggers, so the plan was to compile a nice looking PDF file and then distribute it for free as a way to gain recognition from a blog I’d yet to launch (but is going strongly now), Adventures of a Barefoot Geek.
But even the idea of using a PDF seemed sort of archaic, especially since I wanted this to be an evolving resource. Then at 10pm one night I registered wpsecure.org and got to work, setting up this blog, adding all the content from the Pages document I’d been working on. And that’s how this project came about.
