Harden your WordPerss site from Attacks and Malware
WordPress security is very important for small website and big ones, hacker are always trying to find a way to get control of websites, WordPress is becoming a target for hacker because of its popularity, it’s the most used CMS.
Our team of Johannesburg Website Designers & Security Experts will help you to protect & secure your WordPress website. DevOps Business is a website design company that provide full service, security is primary on all our design packages.
Your site need always to be updated to the latest version, make sure that security auto updates option is enabled, it is recommend you leave the WordPress automatic update system at its default setting.
When you login to your WordPress admin you will get notification if there are any updates available, plugins and theme also need to be updated.
Make sure that your WordPress file and directories have the correct permissions, also restrict permission to WordPress config file and move it out from the public directory.
You must use strong passwords and unique to your site, do not reuse passwords from other accounts. Define users roles, for example do not use admin account to just post an article, create new user for posts and editing and use admin account only for administrative purposes. Change a default admin user account, do not use admin or your site name as admin username.
You should define your backup policy, install a backup plugin, do not save your backup on public directory, you should also regularly save your backup to remote location or save it in your laptop or hard drive
We will install and configure security plugin on your site, enabling firewall. Security pluing scan for malware, report on securtiy issues, failed login attempts, limit login attempts
Most hosting providers now provide Let’s Encrypt SSL certifiacate for free, you should check with your hosting provider to enable it for your website domain, some changes need to be done to WordPress for SSL to be configured correctly, we will help you setup SSL on your site, you should run only https website.
WordPress come with built-in code editor which give you the option to edit your theme files and plugins, if a hacker get in your site, he can easily change your files, you need to disable this feature.
Security is not a 100% science, hacker are always trying to find new ways to target websites, what we offer is the best security practices regarding to WordPress. Site backup will be the last layer so in worst case scenario you can restore your site from backup.
Yes, there are non free security tools you can add to your WordPress site, for example Wordfence security plugin have monthly subscription fees for advance features, please talk to us if you need more advance features.
After we install all the plugins and make the necessary configurations, you can take control of your site updates or you can let us take care of your website with affordable monthly fees.
Before we start security plugins and configuration we do full backup of your site, so we can always go back to the original site. In general security measure do not affect your site design.
Yes you get report weekly, monthly or as you prefer, you get also instant security emails regarding any administrator login, any outdated theme, plugin or problem with your site. Details report you get it when you login to your WordPress administration side.
DevOps Business is a design company in Johannesburg
Our design team will guide and help you to secure your WordPress site.
