Security of the first theme I plan to write

  • i don’t know much coding but i plan to write a wordpress theme. I will spare time and learn and write. Let’s say i do it and it displays things as I want. But what about its security? I have wordfence on my other wp sites. Will this also protect the simple theme I wtite and that’s it?

    I mean I can learn and write code to make my theme display things as I want but for the rest I have no idea … (for example what code to write to defend agsinst hackers, nor i have any idea how to write code based on wordpress updates, compatibility, when and why to update my theme etc… )

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  • For setting up and theme for security, as long as you follow general guidelines you should be fine. The main thing that you need to be wary of is any functionality that allows outside attributes, and make sure that you properly prepare any database calls.

    WordFence, as well as other security plugins, will defend against a lot of hacking attempts, but again, it depends on how well your themes code is written.

    Thread Starter ketanco

    (@ketanco)

    Thanks

    what do you mean by ” allow outside attributes “?

    I checked the link you gave but i have no idea how is it used when or what is it.

    i just know some beginning level php and some html css and plan to write a theme by learning at the same time

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