WordPress Security Upgrade
Hackers don't pick targets.
Bots do.
Automated attacks probe millions of WordPress sites a day looking for one thing: an installation nobody is maintaining. Don't be the easy one.
For a flat $55, I inspect your site, close the doors bots walk through, and lock down your login — before an attacker turns your website into their billboard.
- Prevention costs $55 — malware removal costs $250
- Some hacked sites are never coming back at any price
- Done by a human with 20+ years of WordPress & hosting experience
Included in every upgrade
The full hardening pass
- Free full-site inspection
- WordPress core files updated
- Every plugin updated & audited
- Login URL changed from the default
- Two-factor authentication (2FA) added
- Bot detection on all login URLs
- Written report of what was fixed
No obligation. The inspection is free either way.
You don't have to take my word for it
Everyone who watches this space is saying the same thing: harden now.
Hardening isn't a nervous upsell — it's the standing recommendation of the organizations that track web attacks for a living.
The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency urges organizations to patch CMS software promptly, enforce MFA, and lock down admin access
Wordfence, Sucuri, and Patchstack publish thousands of new WordPress plugin vulnerabilities every year — most exploited within days of disclosure
Major hosts now suspend infected sites on detection and tell customers to harden installations as a condition of staying online
Google Safe Browsing flags tens of thousands of compromised sites per week — and warns every visitor away from yours until it's proven clean
What's actually attacking your site
The threats have evolved. Most WordPress sites haven't.
Botnets hammer /wp-login.php around the clock with millions of leaked passwords. Without 2FA and bot detection, it's a numbers game they eventually win
A plugin that hasn't been updated is a published, documented way into your site. Attackers scan for known-vulnerable versions automatically
Legitimate plugins get sold or hijacked, then ship malicious updates to every site running them. You only survive this if someone is watching
Pharma spam and casino links injected invisibly into your pages, poisoning your search results while the site looks normal to you
Your homepage replaced with an attacker's message — political slogans, scams, or worse — in front of every customer, at the address you've spent years promoting
Modern intrusions plant hidden admin users and rogue files, so attackers can walk back in after a "cleanup" that only removed the visible damage
What neglect actually costs
A hacked site doesn't just look bad. It bleeds.
When maintenance stops, the clock starts. A compromised site gets defaced in front of your customers, blacklisted by Google, blocked by browsers, and dropped by email providers — often all in the same week. Your traffic disappears, your reputation takes the hit, and your host may suspend you until it's cleaned.
And cleanup isn't the worst case. The worst case is the site that's unsalvageable — backups overwritten with infected copies, the database corrupted, years of content and SEO equity gone for good. I've had to deliver that news. It never had to happen.
Beyond the core package, I harden file permissions, disable XML-RPC abuse, rotate security keys, verify your backups actually restore, and remove anything already lurking that shouldn't be there.
The math is not subtle
$55 now, or $250 later — if later is still possible.
The full hardening pass, done before anything goes wrong.
- Free full-site inspection
- Core files & every plugin updated
- Login URL changed from the default
- 2FA on every admin account
- Bot detection on login URLs
- File permissions & keys hardened
- Backup restore verified
What it costs once the attackers are already inside.
- Deep clean of core, plugins & database
- Backdoor and rogue-admin removal
- Blacklist removal requests
- Hardening included afterward
Some sites can't be saved at any price — when the infection reaches the backups, there's nothing left to restore. Details on malware removal →
Prevention costs about a fifth of the cure — and the cure isn't guaranteed.
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