How We Help with WordPress Security
Included in:
All Plans
We harden your site, monitor it with multiple tools, and clean it up if anything gets through. No extra charge, no outside vendor to negotiate with in a crisis.
At NerdPress, security means layered scanning, best-in-class firewall protection, and hardening that gets reviewed by experienced humans. We monitor continuously, scan multiple times per day, and investigate suspicious activity quickly, so you’re not left trying to decode scary alerts on your own.
How we approach WordPress security
We don’t treat security like a to-do list item. Our process combines strong tools with human triage and clear decisions.
Layered malware scanning
At least three times a day, we scan your server for signs of malware or hacking attempts. We also check your site from the outside — just like a visitor would — to catch problems that show up on your public site, like unexpected redirects or spam pages.
Core integrity monitoring
We continuously compare key WordPress Core files to their original versions. If something changes that shouldn’t, or appears out of nowhere, we know quickly.
Cloudflare Enterprise Firewall
We use Cloudflare at the “edge” (before traffic even reaches your server) to block attacks early. That includes DDoS protection, bot management, extra login page security, and custom firewall rules tuned for WordPress.
Strict team access controls
Since we have admin access to so many sites, we don’t rely on passwords alone. We have custom tooling that requires multi-factor, zero-trust authentication for our account on your site.
Security hardening
Our goal is to keep your site secure. We do a thorough review of your security posture, including cleaning up any previous hacks, reviewing your admin accounts and high-risk plugins, and anything else that might leave you vulnerable.
Real-time activity alerts
Using our activity logging tools, we watch for high-risk events, like suspicious plugin activity, unusual admin changes, or anything that shouldn’t be happening. We’ll then investigate and take action as needed.
Layered security protects your business
Good security uses multiple layers of protection and detection.
That’s exactly what our security and hardening process is built for:
- Enterprise Firewall to block threats
- Stay Updated to patch vulnerabilities
- Detect early with layered scans and integrity checks
- Filter the noise with human triage so false positives don’t cause panic
- Contain quickly if a threat is real
- Recover using off-site backups and surgical restores if needed
- Cleanup lingering malicious code
- Harden afterward so the same issue is less likely to happen again
If you’ve already been through a hack, you know that “we cleaned it up” is not the same as “we made sure this is less likely to happen again.” And it’s all included with all of our plans.
Here is how one client, Monica Bhide put it:
Monica BhideNerdPress provides a service that is invaluable. I cannot tell you how much their quiet reassurance helped me cope with the site disaster. They not only fixed the current issues but also helped me figure out how to make the site safe for future use.
When security is layered, monitored, and handled by real humans, your site is safer and the day-to-day stress drops fast. If you want help choosing the right level of protection for your site, compare plans or we can talk it through together.
Explore the other ways we keep your site proactively working for you.
Things you might be wondering (aka: FAQs)
Yes! Many people have come to us after getting hacked, and we can clean it up and get you back on track. We’ll do this as part of our onboarding process — and then once it’s all sorted, we’ll apply all of our services to make sure it never happens again.
Our goal is to prevent this in the first place, of course, and it’s extremely rare that our clients’ sites are compromised. But no security is 100% perfect. If a problem arises, we’ll review the situation, confirm the impact, and begin containment and cleanup using our detailed security checklists. You’ll get plain-language updates on what we found, what it affects, and what happens next.
Since we’ll already have access to your site, we can address it extremely quickly. You won’t have to negotiate with anyone or have to pay a huge amount when you’re under duress, or get hit with a surprise bill. It’s all included with our support.
We run scans multiple times per day across both server-side and public-facing surfaces. We also run integrity monitoring and daily vulnerability review, so we can respond quickly if or when risk changes.
Most providers lean heavily on automation and broad defaults. We combine enterprise tooling with human triage, tailored hardening decisions, and direct responses so alerts lead to action instead of dashboard noise. Unlike hosting support with quotas to hit, we don’t jump straight to a “restore from backup” quick fix, since that could wipe out any recent changes you’ve made on your site.
Yes. We implement multiple layers of protection with the Cloudflare Enterprise firewall, including Enterprise Bot Management, and custom challenges & rate limiting on your login page. We can also help you set up two-factor solutions.