Free checklist
WordPress and WooCommerce Security Checklist
A practical checklist for keeping business WordPress sites and WooCommerce stores safe. Covers updates, logins, server settings, card testing on checkout, edge rules, backups you can restore and monitoring, then a step-by-step plan for a hacked site. Ends with a one-page checklist.
PDF · 14 pages · Updated October 2026
For: Owners, agencies and developers running business WordPress sites and WooCommerce stores.
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What’s inside.
- How WordPress sites actually get hacked
- Updates without breaking the site
- Logins and users
- Server and hosting basics
- WooCommerce specifics
- Firewall, rate limits and bots at the edge
- Backups that you can actually restore
- Monitoring
- If you are hacked
- A one-page checklist
What you’ll be able to do.
- Close the usual ways in: old plugins, stolen logins and nulled themes.
- Update without breaking the site.
- Stop card testing on checkout without blocking payment webhooks.
- Keep backups you can actually restore, and monitor for change.
- Follow a step-by-step plan if the site is hacked.
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