How to Automatically Generate Your WordPress Salt Keys

  1. What are salt keys? 00:47
    • Back in Episode 229, we talked about what salt keys are and how to change them manually.
  2. How to change your WordPress salt keys automatically 01:13
    • There is actually a plugin in the WordPress repository called Salt Shaker that will do this for you.
    • When your salt keys are regenerated, it will cause everyone on your site to have to log in again.
  3. Put this plugin in your template install 03:15
    • That way you always have unique salt keys and can configure when to generate new salt keys.
    • If this is part of your template install, then you don’t have to worry about doing this manually for each new site.

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