Protect Your Website With Our WordPress Security Hardening Service

Did you know that 42% of websites are made with WordPress? This also makes it the most hacked CMS system due to its popularity!

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All Sites Need Security Protection

When it comes to owning a website you need to take security very seriously. A hacker doesn’t care if your website gets accessed by 1 person or 50 a day, Their aim is to target vulnerable sites that can be easily manipulated for their gain. This could be to make a financial gain or to make people aware.

By taking enhanced security steps now it will reduce the likelihood of this happening to you, instead of needing to pay even more to remove the malware.

Bronze Website Hardening

£ 150 / One Time

  • Login 2FA
  • SSL Certificate
  • Security Headers
  • Disable XML-RPC
  • Change Admin URL
  • Update PHP Version
  • Limit login attempts
  • Firewall Implementation
  • Disable directory browsing
  • Disable WordPress file editing
  • Change the WordPress Database Prefix
  • Malware Scan for existing issues
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Silver Website Hardening

£ 30 / Month

  • <b>- One Time -</b>
  • Login 2FA
  • SSL Certificate
  • Security Headers
  • Disable XML-RPC
  • Change Admin URL
  • Update PHP Version
  • Limit login attempts
  • Firewall Implementation
  • Disable directory browsing
  • Disable WordPress file editing
  • Change the WordPress Database Prefix
  • <b>- Reoccurring Tasks - </b>
  • Weekly Backups
  • Weekly Theme Updates
  • Weekly Plugin Updates
  • Weekly Malware Scanning
  • Weekly Patched Vulnerabilities
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Gold Website Hardening

£ 50 / Month

  • <b>- One Time -</b>
  • Login 2FA
  • SSL Certificate
  • Security Headers
  • Disable XML-RPC
  • Change Admin URL
  • Update PHP Version
  • Limit login attempts
  • Firewall Implementation
  • Disable directory browsing
  • Disable WordPress file editing
  • Change the WordPress Database Prefix
  • <b>- Reoccurring Tasks - </b>
  • Daily Backups
  • Daily Theme Updates
  • Daily Plugin Updates
  • Daily Malware Scanning
  • Daily Patched Vulnerabilities
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How Do We Enhance Your WordPress Security?

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Adding 2FA

Adding two-factor authentication reduces the risk of your administrative account been taken over by a hacker. Even if they get the password correct they will require an automatically generated code via your phone or email.

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Brute Force Protection

When an attacker is trying to gain access to your login credentials they will usually try the most common usernames first such as admin or administrator. We will automatically block the attacker's IP permanently.

If the attacker knows your username already we will have implemented a system so they get blocked after 3-5 login attempts.

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Running Our Security Scan

Once we know your login area is secure we will run our security scan which includes checking your security headers, PHP Version, Out of date items, Any existing malware & if your theme and WordPress versions can be found.

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Changing Database Prefix

By default, your WordPress database prefix is usually wp_prefix. We will change this prefix making it harder for the attacker to guess your prefix.

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Changing Admin URL

By default, everyone's WordPress admin is the following: http://www.example.com/wp-login.php. We will change this URL so only you will know the URL.

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Disable XML-RPC

XML-RPC is a feature in WordPress that allows your site to connect to other websites or mobile apps so you can make changes.

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Changing File Permissions

File permissions define who can read, write, and execute the file in question. Sometimes these files can have incorrect permissions which allow unauthorised users to access and edit them which could leave your site with malware.

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Content Review

We will take a look at your plugins and themes to make sure they are fully updated and automatically update. We will remove any unwanted plugins which will decrease website vulnerability.

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Final Hardening

We will make sure the security headers are implemented into your site combating against XSS attacks and more. We will also hide your WordPress and theme versions.

Why Do I Need Your WordPress Security Service?

Did you know that 42.60% of websites on the internet are made with WordPress? This also makes it the most hacked CMS system due to its popularity!

You might be thinking why should I enhance my WordPress security, I have a small personal website that attackers won’t have any interest in. Unfortunately, that’s not the case, hackers run website crawlers and botnets to find websites that can be easily hacked through vulnerabilities then inject malware even if your website is small. 

Our service is to make sure this minimises the risk of this happening by fixing already known WordPress issues and hardening your security, setting the correct file permissions. Each plugin you install increases the risk of your website being hacked as the plugin itself can have vulnerabilities which is why it is important to do this process sooner rather than later!

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Free WordPress Security Audit

Security Plugins We Recommend

To make your WordPress website even more secure we recommend using at least one of these WordPress security plugins. If you are security freaks like us we use each plugin for different purposes in case another plugin misses a vital attack.

Even though these are the best WordPress security plugins on the market they can all sometimes miss an attack which is why we have more than one enabled.

Each plugin has its own niche features that are handy for every WordPress owner when it comes to security!

WordFence security scanner checks core website files, plugins, and themes for malware, backdoors, spam, code injections, and bad URLs. The scanner also compares your website with WordPress.org repository and identifies any common security vulnerabilities. This safety check allows you to be secure and avoid any harmful URLs.

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Adding Defender to your WordPress website will help protect it from a variety of different attacks, including brute force attacks, SQL injections, cross-site scripting, and more. Defender will help keep your website safe with malware scans, antivirus scans, IP blocking, firewall, activity log, security log, and two-factor authentication login security.

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The Sucuri WordPress plugin is available for free installation in the WordPress repository. It comes with features that help to keep your website protected, including hardening features, malware scanning, core integrity check, post-hack features, and email alerts.

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The plugin provides a real-time WordPress security dashboard that monitors security-related events on your site around the clock. The iThemes Security Dashboard is a dynamic dashboard that will show you all of your WordPress website’s security activity stats in one place. This will include stats on brute force attacks, banned users, active lockouts, site scan results, and user security stats.

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Simple rules:
It doesn’t work in editor. Preview in Browser for changes!
Add as many accordion items as required.
Every accordion item panel should house only one image!
Open the Elementor Navigator to see the structure and find out required custom class names.
You should define “min-height” of the Inner Section with the custom class name “.ob-img-switcher-wrap” (prevents the adjacent content jumps).
Delete this hidden Text Editor widget once you got the point 🙂

How it works?
Insert any photo from the Media Library to the accordion content panel. That very photo shall become hidden in front-end but visible on-click in the neighbor column.

It’s good idea to make all the images equal size (w/h).

All the required CSS and JavaScript code belongs to Elementor’s Custom Code file, see:
Dashboard > Elementor >Custom Code :: Accordion Image Swapper (OoohBoi)

WordPress Security Tips

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Use Secured Website Hosting

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Install WordPress Latest Updates

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Enable 2FA On All Accounts

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Keep Themes & Plugins Updated

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Lock WP-Admin & HTAccess Files

Frequently Asked Questions

2FA is an abbreviation for Two-factor authentication. It is a type of multi-factor authentication that strengthens access security by needing two methods to verify your identity. Usually a username:Password & a device.

A brute force attack uses trial-and-error to guess information its trying to crack. This is usually a login form for a website to gain access to a users account.

Security headers are used by websites to configure security defenses in web browsers. An example would be the Content-Security-Policy header as it  helps prevent attacks such as Cross Site Scripting (XSS) and other malicious code injection.

  1. Content-Security-Policy
  2. X-XSS-Protection
  3. HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)
  4. X-Frame-Options
  5. Expect-CT
  6. Feature-Policy
  7. X-Content-Type-Options
  • All files = 664.
  • All folders = 775.
  • wp-config.php = 660.

To fully complete our service we will need to access to your websites cPanel account to make changes to your WordPress file system. We will change your wordpress password when we need to access the dashboard of your website meaning we will never know your password. After our service is complete we will then ask you to change it back.

By having plugins on your website you don’t use, It increases the chance of your site been hacked as each plugin can have the same or a different vulnerability inside.

Depending on the size of your WordPress website our process takes around 1-5 Days to complete as we do it manually.

Before we start our service we backup your entire website incase anything goes wrong. It is very unlikely that your website will break however if the unthinkable was to happen we can restore its last state. 

Have Any Questions?
Don’t hesitate to contact us.