WordPress Security La Grande, OR

WordPress Security experts, over 10 years experience.
We can help you secure your WordPress installation.

Do you need WordPress Security?

We have services for La Grande based website owners offering WordPress Security to individuals, small businesses, medium size businesses, and large corporations. WordPress has a huge target on it's back so to speak. With over 40% of the web using WordPress as it's backend, hackers are constantly looking to exploit vulnerable plugins, or weak passwords. The most important part of creating a secure online presence in La Grande Oregon is making sure your website has the highest levels of security, as well as maintaining security updates.

We provide comprehensive WordPress Security solutions, to help ensure your WordPress website always up to date, secure and safe. Our La Grande team members have expertise in web hosting, malware protection, vulnerability scanning and malware removal.

Security is not just set it and forget it, you need to make sure everything is up to date with latest security patches. This is where maintenance comes into play and one of our primary services/focuses.

Our La Grande OR Maintenance Plans Include

WordPress Hardening

Industry standard WordPress hardening and our special security features as a bonus.

Automated Backups

Setup an automated backup system for a fail safe version of your WordPress installation.

Keep Up-To-Date

Monthly WordPress core and Plugin updates, with human inspection afterwards.

24/7 Monitoring

Up time monitoring that notifies our team to detect any server issues.

Frequently Asked Questions

WordPress Security Services in La Grande Oregon

Our La Grande security team has a checklist of WordPress hardening standards for out of the box WordPress installations.

  • Limiting Login Attempts and renaming the default login location
  • Enforcing Strong Admin Passwords
  • Giving a nice name to admin users (to avoid disclosure of usernames for logins)
  • Disabling User enumeration via WordPress's API as well as author ugly permalinks. aka ?author=1

More advanced security that isn't part of our La Grande, Oregon WordPress Security basic package includes:

  • Renaming wp-content to custom name to protect against lazy scanners, as well as avoid being Google Dorked
    (people scanning Google for default WordPress paths for known vulnerable plugins)
  • Custom WordPress Firewall Rules
  • Security Monitoring and active responses
  • Monthly maintenance of keeping everything up to date

Yes our La Grande, Oregon team offers WordPress malware clean up. It generally takes 24-48 hours for our team to assess and clean up your WordPress website. Then we monitor it for the next couple days to ensure no malicious files get regenerated. In rare cases when your hosting account doesn't have root access and the server has been infected on a root level, we might recommend you switch servers.

The internet is a vulnerable and insecure place, there is never a guarantee that your website won't be compromised at some point in time. Even big companies that have very intelligent cyber security professionals get compromised from time to time. Our service is for mitigating risk by keeping your site up to date with "known" patches. As well as implementing best security practices to minimize your risk. With our monthly security plan if in the rare case your site does get infected with malware we will remove it for free! (with the stipulation that you are following our recommended strong password policy)

With our La Grande, Oregon team the initial setup takes 24 hours, which includes creating a back up system on your server (where applicable), updating WordPress Core, WordPress Plugins and WordPress Themes. Afterwards we look over the website manually to ensure nothing has broken. Moving forward updates and inspection is done routinely on a monthly basis.

City of La Grande, Oregon
Source: wikipedia

La Grande is a city in Union County, Oregon, United States. La Grande is Union County's largest city, with a population of 13,082 at the time of the 2010 U.S. Census. The La Grande metro population is 25,076. It is the 16th largest metropolitan area in Oregon. La Grande is located within the Grande Ronde Valley and is the only true valley in Oregon as it is surrounded by mountains. The Blue Mountains, Elkhorn Mountains, Eagle Cap Wilderness and Grande Ronde River offer abundance of natural resources and wildlife. Economically, it started as a logging and agriculture town but is now identified as a gateway for many outdoor sports, including mountain biking, fishing, hiking, camping, rock climbing, white-water rafting, skiing, paragliding, and golf. It is the hub for surrounding communities offering outdoor recreation, shopping centers and entertainment. La Grande is known for its theater and arts as the downtown area boasts Liberty Theater and the Elgin Opera House often has local showings. La Grande also is a college town with a student population of 2,825 at Eastern Oregon University. Popular outdoor activities include going to Mt. Emily Recreation Area (MERA) to ATV/Hike/Mountain Bike, or stopping at Hot Lakes Resort to soak in the natural hot springs or enjoy some fishing on the Grande Ronde or at Morgan Lake.