Outsourcing WordPress Development? Let HireWPGeeks take the mantle.

Once you’ve made the shift to WordPress as your content management platform, nothing else will ever measure up in sheer user friendliness and ease. But to get the WordPress website that truly reflects your brand’s individual identity isn’t something you can accomplish with commonly sold themes and plugins. To stand out in a sea of ‘premium theme’ websites, hire a WordPress developer. But why stop there when you can hire an entire team of ingenuous, crafty WordPress Geeks instead?

HireWPGeeks is a WordPress development company delivering outstanding WordPress services to clients across the world: From letting you hire WordPress developers (of your choice), customize your CMS to something spectacularly your own, to designing and developing entire portals and chains for any niche and industry vertical imaginable, even to bring you home to WordPress from some other platform with X to WordPress conversion services. They have the whole thing covered.

HireWPGeeks strongly believes in user-centric, comprehensive, and cost-effective WordPress development. They have a team of 75+professional developers, working consistently and using the latest and best in tools, trends, and technologies to code, compile, and collaborate within the strictest of time-constraints. With over 5000 projects to their name in 5 years and more than 1500 satisfied clients, this company can claim to have a 95% client retention ratio and helps clients save up to 45% of their outsourcing cost.

“The great thing is, HireWPGeeks makes development a collaborative effort using communication and trust,” says one satisfied (and recurring) client who prefers to stay anonymous. The company is known for combining astute business strategies of clients with the technological intuition and competence of their pro Geeks to deliver high-end WordPress development solutions that conform to specific needs and scale elegantly with increasing demands over time. Since the company is proud of every single project they complete, there’s a strict, straight off 100% satisfaction or Money-Back guarantee on every deliverable. This confidence on something so vague and relative comes from scrupulous attention to detail and on-the-dot delivery of WordPress solutions that have fit seamlessly with over 1500 clients’ enterprises till date.

Unlike the spammy sites begging for scrapes, HireWPGeeks is dedicated to assisting its clients. The responsive team at HireWPGeeks is available round-the-clock to answer all questions and attend to any grievances clients may have with their services. We make sure you can outsource WordPress development and have peace of mind at the same time.

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Basic Security Tips for WordPress Beginners

 

Welcome to WordPress.

You are now a part of a sprawling community of WordPress users, developers, and geeks. And your website is one of 16 million others currently powered by WordPress.

You already know about user-friendliness, the vast variety, and utter control you get to exercise over your WordPress website. But it’s not all fun and games until you learn how to keep it safe.

WordPress is as secure as you make it. So let’s harden your defenses against common attacks.

1. Back Ups

These are necessary for maintenance, security, and just general peace of mind.

A backup is your safety net in times when a) your website crashes, b) you lock yourself out, and c) you get hacked.

All you need to do is install a trustworthy backup plugin and use it to create scheduled backups of your website. Try one like Backup Buddy (premium, has good auto restore features), BackUpWordPress (free), WordPress Backup to Dropbox (mostly free, great for creating and storing site wide + database backups on cloud), and SaaS like VaultPress, UpdraftPlus, et al.

Tip: Create a backup schedule that coincides with your general maintenance schedule. Essentially, anytime you upgrade something on your website, your backup should save it. 

2. Download from Trusted sources only

Most WordPress websites are open to attack through theme and plugin vulnerabilities.

Make sure you download absolutely nothing from sources that reek of malicious activity: typically websites offering premium goods for free are major culprits. A few bucks saved now will come back to give you grief later.

Trusted sources like the official WordPress repositories (for themes and plugins) are safe, along with large marketplaces like Envato (ThemeForest and CodeCanyon), iThemes, StudioPress, etc.

Tip: Exercise the same caution before hiring a custom WordPress development services provider.

3. Strong Passwords and Admin username

It may sound harsh, but if you’re too lazy to change the default username and couldn’t be bothered to use a strong password, you deserve to get hacked. At this point you’re practically inviting attackers.

Long, strong passwords are your first line of defense against ‘standard’ brute force attacks. The length and complexity exponentially increases the time it would take to crack your password. Mix up random letters in upper and lower cases with numbers and characters.

Also change the default username (“admin”, are you kidding me?) to something less obvious.

Tip: Set up a new account and assign admin role to that, and delete the previous “admin” username account. It’s one of the simplest ways.

4. Security Plugins

Oh, now we’re talking.

Security plugins are your website’s personal anti-virus systems, in that they will whet your website and exterminate any malicious bits left behind by potential attackers. This is essential: WordFence (The best and largely free plugin with exhaustive features for site security, login, two factor authentication, etc.)

There are more options (like Login Lockdown, iThemes Security, etc.) but WordFence has enough features to do all their jobs on its own.

Tip: Feature packed plugins fulfill more requirements, and make it easy to keep your plugin-count under tight control. This is good for both security and performance.

5. Update Consistently

Most good Plugins and themes, and the WordPress core itself, roll out updates on a regular basis. Your job is to update to the latest version.

You may have noticed that within a few weeks of every major platform update (last one was 4.4 Clifford), you will get minor version release notices (last one was 4.4.2). These are fixes for security vulnerabilities.  Themes and plugins also keep pace with the updates for error-free performance and more tightly-knit security.

So update. Consistently.

Endnote

Once you have set up a routine for maintenance and security, you can progress to advanced tactics to harden WordPress by checking out even more security tips and this complete checklist.

It’s a war out there. Do your part by keeping your wits around you, and be safe.

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