Start using Patchstack

Getting started guide

Welcome to Patchstack!
Patchstack is a powerful tool that helps to protect your WordPress applications from attacks and identify security vulnerabilities within all your WordPress plugins, themes, and core. It is powered by the WordPress ecosystems most active community of ethical hackers. Patchstack is trusted by leading WordPress experts such as GoDaddy, Pagely, Cloudways, GridPane, Plesk, and others.

This guide will walk you through the whole product, showing you how to set up Patchstack on your site and make the most of it in the future.

Step #1 Register your account

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Step #2 Add & connect your site(s) to Patchstack

Install and sync the Patchstack plugin with your WordPress site(s).
To add the first site:

Navigate to Dashboard
Click on the green Connect site button.
Go through the steps shown in the dialogue
Install the plugin .zip file to your WordPress site

Check the more detailed tutorial here

Step #3 Review vulnerabilities

Patchstack shows your site for existing plugin & theme vulnerabilities. After that, check your dashboard to see a detailed breakdown of vulnerabilities by patch priority and severity score.

Take immediate action on the High Priority vulnerabilities.

Learn more about vulnerabilities

Step #4 Check your software for updates

Check the status of your plugins and themes and apply the necessary updates.

Learn more

Step #5 Check the protection modules

Select, which protection modules youd like to use to protect your site. Patchstack blocks attacks with highly-targeted security rules.

Learn more about protection modules

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Step #6 Set up your WordPress hardening

Fortify your site(s) against threats with specific WordPress hardening features such as adjusting .htaccess settings, setting up captcha solutions, setting up login protection or two factor authentication.

Explore hardening

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Step #7 Generate a report

Understand your threat activity and how Patchstack protected you with practical reports. Create a PDF security report of your site to have an overiew of the current state of security about your site.

Using reports

Step #8 Schedule your reports

Get monthly overviews per site for each site in your account. Schedule them to arrive in your inbox just in time for your monthly reporting!

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Step #9 Set up your custom alerts

By default, Patchstack will alert you when we identify and vPatch a vulnerability in your plugins, themes or other software components. However, you can also set up custom alerts for firewall hits, attempted logins, and more. On a Developer and Enterprise plan, you can also integrate Slack to send notifications to your Slack channel.

Creating alert triggers tutorial