We provide WordPress security services for business owners who cannot afford for their site to go down, get defaced, or quietly start sending customers to somebody else’s spam. Founder led, no call centre, and you deal with me directly.
Most WordPress sites are not broken into because somebody targeted them. They are broken into because an automated scanner found an out of date plugin, and nobody was watching. That is the honest version, and it is also the good news, because almost all of it is preventable with a routine that somebody actually follows.
Our WordPress security service covers the whole of that routine: hardening the site, keeping plugins and themes current, watching for changes, taking backups that have been tested, and being on the end of the phone if something does happen.
What a WordPress security service should actually include
Hardening
File editing disabled, login URL changed, two factor on every administrator account, sensible file permissions, security headers, and XML-RPC closed off if you are not using it.
Updates that get checked
Core, plugins and themes kept current, applied on a staging copy first where the site warrants it, so an update never takes the site down on a Friday afternoon.
Monitoring
File change detection, uptime checks and a scan on a schedule, so a compromise is caught in hours rather than being found by a customer weeks later.
Backups you can restore
Offsite, versioned, and tested by actually restoring one. A backup nobody has ever restored is a hope, not a plan.
User and access control
A review of who has administrator access and why, removal of accounts nobody recognises, and least privilege for everyone else.
Someone to call
If the worst happens you are not filing a support ticket into the void. You get a person who already knows your site.
WordPress security plans
Most people want this handled on a monthly basis rather than as a one off, so our WordPress security care plans are built around the level of risk the site carries. A brochure site and a WooCommerce store taking card payments are not the same problem.
Essential
From £60 / month
- Core, plugin and theme updates
- Daily offsite backups
- Security hardening applied and maintained
- Uptime monitoring
- Monthly summary you can actually read
Managed
From £99 / month
- Everything in Essential
- Staged updates on a copy of the site first
- File change detection and scheduled scanning
- Firewall configuration and tuning
- Malware cleanup included if you are ever hit
- One hour of small changes each month
WooCommerce
From £120 / month
- Everything in Managed
- Checkout and payment integrity checks
- Card testing and fraudulent order monitoring
- Priority response during trading hours
- Pre and post peak season review
Plans are quoted per site once we have looked at it, because the honest price depends on how many plugins are in play, what the hosting is like, and whether the site sells anything. The call is free and there is no obligation.
Start with a WordPress security audit
If you are not sure whether you need a plan at all, start with the audit. A WordPress security audit tells you where you actually stand rather than where you assume you stand, and you get a written report you can act on yourself if you would rather.
It covers user accounts and access, plugin and theme risk, file integrity, the backup regime, hosting configuration, and anything already sitting in the site that should not be there.
Why bring an SEO agency into a security problem
This is the part most security companies are not set up for. A great many WordPress compromises are not trying to break your site at all. They are trying to use it.
Injected spam links, hidden pages selling counterfeit pharmaceuticals, a redirect that only fires for visitors arriving from Google, thousands of junk URLs indexed under your domain. The malware itself might take an afternoon to remove. The damage to your rankings, your Search Console coverage and your reputation with Google can take months to undo, and it does not fix itself when the files are cleaned.
Because we do SEO as well as WordPress, we treat both halves as the same job: clean the site, then get the spam de-indexed, the warnings lifted, and the rankings back.
What that looks like in practice
Removing the malicious code is step one. Then we submit the removals, request the Safe Browsing review, repair the internal linking the hack broke, check the sitemap and canonical tags, and watch Search Console until impressions recover. That second half is where most cleanups quietly stop.
We have been on the receiving end of this too
In August 2026 this very site was compromised. Somebody injected a bot redirect into the theme header, created two administrator accounts, and used an outdated file manager plugin as the way in.
We found it, removed the injected script, deleted the rogue accounts, dropped the plugin that let them in, locked down file editing, updated twenty nine plugins and two themes, purged the cache and asked Google to recrawl. The whole thing is written up honestly rather than buried, because an agency that tells you it has never had an incident is either very lucky or not being straight with you.
It is also why the routine above is not theoretical. It is what we now run on our own site.
Who we do this for
- Business owners whose site is the main way customers find and contact them
- WooCommerce stores where downtime is lost revenue and a card skimmer is a serious problem
- Charities and non profits who cannot afford a specialist in house
- Agencies and developers who want the security side handled by somebody else
- Anyone who has been hacked once already and does not intend to repeat it
Frequently asked questions
Is WordPress actually insecure?
No. WordPress core is well maintained and patched quickly. Almost every compromise we deal with comes in through an out of date plugin or theme, a weak administrator password, or hosting that was never configured properly. That is a maintenance problem rather than a WordPress problem, which is why a routine fixes it.
Is a security plugin enough on its own?
A good security plugin is a useful part of the setup and we usually configure one. On its own it is not enough, because it cannot update your plugins, decide which ones are risky, test your backups, or notice that someone has added an administrator account. Those need a person.
Do you work with our existing host?
Yes, in almost all cases. We work across most of the common hosts. If your hosting is genuinely part of the problem we will tell you plainly, explain why, and give you the option of moving. We will not pretend a move is required when it is not.
What if we get hacked while we are on a plan?
On the Managed and WooCommerce plans the cleanup is included, and so is the search side of the recovery. No security setup can promise a site will never be compromised, and you should be sceptical of anyone who tells you otherwise. What we can promise is that it gets found quickly, there is a tested backup to fall back on, and you are not paying an emergency rate to fix it.
Can you just do a one off hardening job?
We can, and sometimes that is the right answer. Be aware that hardening is a snapshot. The plugins you hardened today are out of date in six weeks, so a one off piece of work protects you for a while rather than permanently.
Are you a WordPress security expert or a general agency?
Both, and that is deliberate. We have been building and maintaining WordPress sites since 2012, and we do SEO alongside it. When a hack is being used to publish spam under your domain, you want somebody who understands the server and the search engine, not just one of the two.
How quickly can you start?
For a plan, usually within a few working days of the call. If your site is compromised right now, that is a different and more urgent job, and it is covered on our WordPress malware removal page.
Let us take the security worry off your desk
A free twenty minute call, no pitch and no obligation. Tell us about the site, and we will tell you honestly what it needs and what it does not.