WordPress Security Spokane, WA

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

Do you need WordPress Security?

We have services for Spokane 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 Spokane Washington 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 Spokane 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 Spokane WA 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 Spokane Washington

Our Spokane 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 Spokane, Washington 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 Spokane, Washington 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 Spokane, Washington 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 Spokane, Washington
Source: wikipedia

Spokane ( (listen) spoh-KAN) is the largest city in and seat of government of Spokane County, Washington, United States. It is in eastern Washington, along the Spokane River, adjacent to the Selkirk Mountains, and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills, 92 miles (148 km) south of the Canadian border, 18 miles (30 km) west of the Washington–Idaho border, and 279 miles (449 km) east of Seattle, along I-90. Spokane is the economic and cultural center of the Spokane metropolitan area, the Spokane–Coeur d'Alene combined statistical area, and the Inland Northwest. It is known as the birthplace of Father's Day, and locally by the nickname of "Lilac City". Officially, Spokane goes by the nickname of Hooptown USA, due to Spokane annually hosting Spokane Hoopfest, the world's largest basketball tournament. The city and the wider Inland Northwest area are served by Spokane International Airport, 5 miles (8 km) west of Downtown Spokane. According to the 2010 census, Spokane had a population of 208,916, making it the second-largest city in Washington, and the 101st-largest city in the United States. At the 2020 census, Spokane's population was 228,989. A 2021 estimate sets the population of the Spokane Metropolitan Area at 593,466.The first people to live in the area, the Spokane tribe (their name meaning "children of the sun" in Salishan), lived off plentiful game. David Thompson explored the area with the westward expansion and establishment of the North West Company's Spokane House in 1810. This trading post was the first long-term European settlement in Washington. Completion of the Northern Pacific Railway in 1881 brought settlers to the Spokane area. The same year it was officially incorporated as a city under the name of Spokane Falls (it was re-incorporated under its current name ten years later). In the late 19th century, gold and silver were discovered in the Inland Northwest. The local economy depended on mining, timber, and agriculture until the 1980s. Spokane hosted the first environmentally themed World's fair at Expo '74. Many of the downtown area's older Romanesque Revival-style buildings were designed by architect Kirtland Kelsey Cutter after the Great Fire of 1889. The city is also home to the Riverfront and Manito parks, the Smithsonian-affiliated Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, the Davenport Hotel, and the Fox and Bing Crosby theaters. The Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane, and the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist serves as that of the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane. The Spokane Washington Temple in the east of the county serves the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Gonzaga University was established in 1887 by the Jesuits, and the private Presbyterian Whitworth University was founded three years later and moved to north Spokane in 1914. The city's western suburb of Airway Heights is home to Fairchild Air Force Base as well as two large casino hotels. In sports, the region's professional and semi-professional sports teams include the Spokane Indians in Minor League Baseball and Spokane Chiefs in junior ice hockey. The Gonzaga Bulldogs collegiate basketball team competes at the Division I level. As of 2010, Spokane's major daily newspaper, The Spokesman-Review, had a daily circulation of over 76,000.