10 ways to secure your WordPress website

10 ways to secure your WordPress website

1. Choose a secure hosting provider
2. Get security plugins like WordFence, Sucuri and Cloudbric with firewall and brute-force protection
3. Choose a secure licenced theme
4. Keep WordPress and all plugins updated with a maintenance plan
5. Use secure login details
6. Add two way-factor authentication
7. Disable file editing
8. Virus scan your website and computer on a regular basis
9. Use HTTPS (SSL certificates)
10. Backups and use UpdraftPlus

Contact us if you wish to install/update security on your website with brute-force protection, update all relevant plugins including Themes and latest WordPress software. We recommend a website maintenance plan to do monthly updates and backups.

See our maintenance plans on https://www.rmwebdevelopers.com/website-maintenance-plans/.

Please note if you host with us we keep backups of the last 14 days, should there be a need to restore your website and database.

3rd party clients

If you are hosting with us, please communicate this to all your relevant clients.