🔒 Lock Down Your WordPress Website (5 Essential Tips!)

Ready to hand over that beautiful new WordPress website? Don’t let your clients and content authors accidentally break your design!

In this video, I share 5 essential code snippets to lock down the WordPress editor and theme settings, ensuring your clients and content managers only have access to what they need, preserving your hard work, and maintaining design consistency.

We’re focusing on modern WordPress Block Themes (like Twenty Twenty-Five, Frost, and Ollie) running on WordPress 6.9+.

What you’ll learn and how to lock down:

• Remove Core Block Patterns: Stop WordPress from pulling in unnecessary patterns from WordPress.org that conflict with your theme design
• Disable Openverse Integration: Prevent users from inserting random, non-curated Openverse images directly into your client’s finished site
• Hide Plugin Installation: Prevent administrators (clients) from installing/activating new plugins directly from the Block Inserter (and get a bonus snippet to hide the main Plugins menu for non-core administrators!)
• Restrict HTML Editing: Hide the “Edit as HTML” option to prevent accidental structural damage to blocks by editors
• Restrict Block Inserter Access (The Best Tip!): Limit non-admin users (authors, editors, content managers) to ONLY the core blocks, custom blocks, and patterns you explicitly allow. This is the #1 tip for maintaining design control!
• Bonus Tip! Restrict access to Plugins to specific Administrators!

👉 *** Download all the code snippets from this video, the 2025 child and my Starter Theme here: https://jakson.co/freebies/

If you build professional WordPress websites, these tips are a must-watch before your next client handover!

Ciao! Jakson

👉 Videos mentioned in this video:

• Random Patterns: https://youtu.be/l7a7QgZSasQ
• My Starter Block Theme: https://youtu.be/7Z4iE6bfWcs

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