Keeping WooCommerce safe and secure

This whole book has been guiding you to build an incredible WooCommerce store that will make a lot of money for you or your client. But that store won’t do you any good if hackers can get easy access to your site and siphon money from your business or turn the whole website into an ad for cryptocurrency.

There are several steps you can take that make your site much more resilient.

Check your hosting before you launch

Before you launch your store, it’s worth double-checking that your website host is both reputable and has modern technology.

We talked about hosts back in Chapter 9, Speeding Up Your Store. It’s worth talking about website hosts again in the context of security. A website host is the infrastructure for your site. If you want to have a secure website with an insecure host, it’s sort of like rolling up the windows of your car but leaving the door unlocked.

Here are some of the features I’...