The ultimate solution to permanently secure your WordPress website

Our agency develops the majority of its clients’ websites using WordPress. Over the years, we have occasionally encountered security issues, particularly with the administration interface of high-traffic websites.

In most cases, these issues were related to vulnerabilities either within WordPress itself or in third-party plugins developed by the community. These vulnerabilities could potentially expose our clients’ websites to security threats, despite the fact that we always kept WordPress and its plugins up to date.

We therefore tested several security plugins and solutions, but without achieving entirely satisfactory results. In some cases, we were even forced to restore website backups following SQL injection attacks or malware infections.

This experience led us to look for a more robust and reliable approach to securing the WordPress websites we manage.

WordPress is an excellent CMS. First of all, it is easy for administrators and clients to use and provides intuitive tools for creating and managing website content. It also benefits from a large and active community, offering an extensive range of features, plugins, and solutions that have already been developed.

WordPress is also open-source software, meaning that it can be freely downloaded and used. This gives our clients greater autonomy and ensures that they are not dependent on a single web agency. Since WordPress is used by a large number of agencies and developers worldwide, a website can easily be maintained or further developed by another provider if necessary.

As the world’s most widely used CMS, WordPress also offers considerable flexibility and scalability. Websites can evolve over time, allowing new features and content to be added without having to rebuild the entire technical infrastructure.

However, its popularity also makes WordPress a particularly attractive target for cyberattacks. A vulnerability discovered in WordPress or in a widely used third-party plugin can potentially affect a very large number of websites, making these vulnerabilities particularly valuable to malicious actors.

After several months of research and development aimed at finding a reliable and sustainable approach, we therefore decided to develop our own WordPress security solution. Our objective is to provide our clients with greater protection and peace of mind when managing their websites—and, of course, to give our team greater peace of mind as well!

We decided to develop our own WordPress security plugin. Its protection operates at several levels of the system, helping to reduce exposure to threats such as SQL injection attacks while also generating a cached version of the website’s content.

In less than a minute, your website can be replicated as a secure cached version on a dedicated server. Visitors then access this protected version of the website, while the WordPress administration interface and underlying CMS are no longer directly exposed to the public.

This approach significantly reduces the attack surface of your WordPress website while maintaining the content management flexibility of the CMS for administrators.

For security reasons, this article only provides a general overview of part of our security architecture.

Our solution uses at least two separate servers: one hosting WordPress and another hosting the cached version of the website. The objective is to retain the main advantages of WordPress—its ease of use, flexibility, and extensive ecosystem—while keeping the CMS itself inaccessible to public website visitors and therefore significantly reducing its exposure to potential attacks.

Only a static HTML version of the website is published on the publicly accessible web server. As a result, visitors browse the cached version rather than directly accessing the WordPress environment, considerably limiting the attack surface associated with server-side PHP processing.

This architecture therefore has two main objectives: significantly strengthening the security of the WordPress website while also improving performance, particularly page loading speed.

Whether you are already a Studionet client or your website was developed independently by another provider, you can contact us to implement our WordPress security solution.

Getting started is simple: contact our team by phone or through our online contact form to discuss your website and security requirements.

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