199 – Keep Your Site Secure When Hiring a WordPress Developer
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Keep Your Site Secure When Hiring a WordPress Developer
This week Colin wrote in with a question: How can I keep my website secure when I hire a contractor to do the work for me?
- Set up a duplicate site and give your developer access to this site
- Allow them to make the necessary changes
- Push their changes back to the live site with WP Migrate DB Pro or similar plugin
- Give them a few more projects in the same way
- Once you feel comfortable with your new developer, then you can give them access to your live site
- Only give them access to exactly what they need
- Generate a new password for each project and revoke access when project is completed
- Make sure you have offsite backups that they don’t have access to
