WordPress Management & Security
Ongoing management and security hardening built specifically for WordPress, the platform behind a huge share of the small-business web, and the one attackers target hardest because of it.
Who this is for: Businesses running on WordPress or WooCommerce who want it actively managed and hardened, not just installed and left alone.
The Problem
WordPress runs a huge share of the small-business web, which is exactly why it’s targeted so heavily, not because it’s inherently insecure, but because an unmaintained plugin or a weak admin password is an easy, repeatable way in at scale.
Our Solution
We manage WordPress the way we’d want our own managed: core, plugins, and themes kept current, login and admin access hardened, and file integrity monitored so unauthorized changes are caught in hours, not months.
What's included
- Core, plugin, and theme updates, tested on staging before production
- Login hardening: rate limiting, MFA, and disabling XML-RPC where it isn’t needed
- Malware scanning, backdoor detection, and full clean-up after compromise
- Plugin risk audits, removing abandoned or unmaintained plugins before they’re the way in
- WAF rules tuned specifically for WordPress attack patterns
- Tested backups with verified, working restores, not just backup files nobody’s opened
- Admin account and user-role audits
- File integrity monitoring so unauthorized changes are caught immediately
- WooCommerce and storefront-specific hardening
WordPress runs a huge share of the small-business web, which is exactly why it’s targeted so heavily, not because it’s inherently insecure, but because an unmaintained plugin or a weak admin password is an easy, repeatable way in at scale.
We manage WordPress sites the way we’d want our own managed: core, plugins, and themes kept current and tested before they touch production; login and admin access hardened; and file integrity monitored so an unauthorized change gets caught in hours, not months.
When a site is already compromised, our clean-up process goes past the surface symptom. Malicious redirects and spam injections are usually just what’s visible, the real work is removing every backdoor, every rogue admin account, and every planted file the attacker left behind so they can’t just walk back in through the same door a week later. See our write-up on a recent ClickFix malware removal on a compromised WordPress site for what that process actually looks like.
Benefits
- Fewer successful compromises in the first place
- Fast detection if something does get through
- Reinfection actually stopped, because the entry point gets closed, not just the symptom
Our Process
Audit
Review the current site, plugins, and admin accounts.
Harden
Lock down login, admin access, and plugin risk.
Deploy
Roll out WAF rules and file integrity monitoring.
Clean Up
If compromised, remove every backdoor and rogue account, not just the visible file.
Maintain
Ongoing updates and monitoring on a schedule.
Proven results: See the full ClickFix malware removal case study, including what a full audit turned up. See the write-up →
Frequently asked questions
My WordPress site is showing spam links or redirecting visitors, what do I do first?
Don’t just delete the visible symptom. Contact us for an emergency clean-up, removing one plugin or file often leaves backdoors and rogue admin accounts in place, and the site gets reinfected within days.
Do you manage WooCommerce stores too?
Yes, including PCI-DSS-relevant hardening for stores handling card data, plugin vetting for payment and checkout extensions, and uptime monitoring tuned for storefronts.
Can you take over management of a site another agency built?
Yes, this is one of our most common engagements. We start with a full security and configuration audit before taking on ongoing management, so nothing existing is inherited blind.
How do you prevent reinfection after a clean-up?
By closing the actual entry point, usually an outdated or vulnerable plugin, a weak/reused admin password, or an old theme, not just removing the malicious files, plus ongoing file integrity monitoring afterward.
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