A WordPress technical audit that ends with a plan, not a list of complaints: what’s causing each problem, what to fix first, and the estimated hours for each fix.
A WordPress technical audit is a structured review of your membership site, delivered as a prioritized growth roadmap. Every finding gets tagged by severity, root cause, and recommended fix, then turned into a costed fix plan you can act on with the tools you already own.
Security is one pillar of the audit, checked alongside everything else that decides whether your site is safe and stable. If you came looking for a WordPress security audit specifically, that work is included here.
Want the short version for your board or insurer? Download our security overview (PDF).
Caching and CDN configuration, error logs, SSL, DNS, and whether your backups can actually be restored, not just whether a backup file exists.
A full inventory, a conflict report, a register of any custom code, and the plugin bloat that quietly slows down and breaks sites.
Membership levels, access rules, the renewal flow, invoicing, and privacy settings.
Reconciling Stripe against MemberPress to catch members paying but locked out, gateways that quietly stopped rebilling, and duplicate subscriptions.
SMTP, DKIM and authentication, and the chain that decides whether your member emails actually land.
Admin access and roles, two-factor coverage, login and reCAPTCHA conflicts that lock out real members, exposed endpoints, and the plugins most likely to be a way in.
Tests of signup, login, renewal and account changes, run the way your members actually use the site.
Every finding in your report gets the same three-part write-up: how bad it is, why it’s happening, and what fixes it. Here’s a real one, rebuilt from one of our published case studies.
Example finding
CriticalMembers and the site's own administrators were locked out of login. Two-factor codes never arrived, and the login form showed multiple, conflicting reCAPTCHA boxes.
Members could not log in with the right password, and the admins were locked out too.
Cause
A combination of conflicting security plugins, missing SMTP, and restrictive hosting-level settings.
Fix
Restored admin access, disabled the login limiter, configured SMTP, and removed the duplicate security layers.
Result
Admins and members back in. Active plugins cut from 27 to 19, a 30 percent reduction, with no functionality lost.
Root cause in detail
The host had installed a login-limiting plugin as a must-use plugin, which cannot be disabled from the WordPress dashboard, and its own two-factor and reCAPTCHA clashed with WordPress login. A second security plugin added a duplicate layer of two-factor. No SMTP was configured, so two-factor codes were not reliably delivered. Host-level page caching could not be excluded from membership pages.
The fix in detail
Regained admin access first, by enabling a two-factor grace period directly in the database. Disabled the login limiter at the file-system level, via the must-use plugins folder. Configured SMTP so two-factor codes and password resets deliver. Removed the duplicate security layers and streamlined the two-factor and reCAPTCHA setup.
How findings are ranked
Source: Fixing Broken Membership Logins and Locked-Out Members
See a sample growth plan. It is a real plan we delivered, with the client’s name and figures changed.
Most audits hand you a list of everything wrong and leave. We turn the findings into a growth roadmap you can act on with the tools you already own.
It starts with a free initial audit. Some sites need a deeper, paid audit before the plan.
The findings in priority order, with an hour estimate for each fix. You can take the plan to any developer you like.
If you want us to do the work, the plan becomes a Managed TechOps retainer: a monthly block of hours we work through in priority order, month to month, no minimum term.
We’re not here to sell you a rebuild. We recommend a migration only when it’s genuinely the right call, the way we did for Head for Change after load testing showed their hosting plan couldn’t handle four members logging in at once.
UK charity for brain health in sport. LearnDash LMS alongside a Divi marketing site.
Volunteer-run health-freedom nonprofit in Melbourne, Australia. WordPress and MemberPress.
The first look is free. It starts with a chat, because we need access to your site to audit it and you should know who you are handing that to. If we are a fit, the initial audit costs nothing. The free initial audit looks at your member journey, your site’s performance and plugins, and how your offer is structured, and gives you a general overview of where things stand.
Some sites need a deeper audit, and that one is paid. It starts at $1,000. A 12-plugin course site and a 60-plugin membership platform running three payment gateways are not the same job, so the final price depends on the size of the site, how urgent the work is, and how much careful testing a sensitive site needs. If yours needs the full review described on this page, we will tell you why and scope it against an hour estimate before you agree to anything.
For reference:
An audit plus the fixes it found
13 developer hours
The plugin and performance audit for Head for Change, a UK charity's LearnDash site.
A rescue project, audit plus fixes
Scoped at 50 hours, delivered in 45
A full rescue for Word of Wellness International, which included a Stripe repair on top of the audit.
Some sites skip the paid audit entirely and go straight from the free look to a growth plan.
After that, it is your call. The growth plan is what becomes a Managed TechOps retainer, where the same team that found the problems works through them with you, month to month, no minimum term. You can just as well take the plan to any developer you like. Nothing about the audit commits you to us.
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The work behind it
Tell us about your site. We’ll have a chat, and if we’re a fit, we run your initial audit free. You’ll get a general overview of where things stand, and a straight answer on whether you need a deeper look.
A chat with a technical team member. If we are a fit, it leads to a free initial audit of your member journey, performance, plugins and offer structure.
A written report with an executive summary and diagrams, every finding tagged by severity, root cause, and recommended fix, a prioritized roadmap, a costed fix list with hour estimates, instructions another developer can follow, and a live call to walk through it with you. That is the full audit. The free initial audit looks at your member journey, your site’s performance and plugins, and how your offer is structured, and gives you a general overview of where things stand.
The initial audit is free. If your site needs the deeper paid audit, it starts at $1,000. We scope it against an hour estimate rather than a flat fee, and the final price depends on the size of the site, how urgent the work is and how much testing it needs. You see that estimate before agreeing to anything. For reference, a plugin and performance audit for a LearnDash site, including the fixes it found, ran 13 developer hours; a full migration rescue that included a Stripe repair was scoped at 50 hours and delivered in 45.
Security is one part of a wider technical audit, not a separate product. We check admin access, two-factor coverage, and the login and reCAPTCHA conflicts that lock out real members, alongside your server, plugins, billing, and email. If you searched for a WordPress security audit specifically, that work is included here.
No. The roadmap is built on the tools you already own. We only recommend a migration when it’s genuinely the right call, the way we did for Head for Change after load testing showed their hosting plan couldn’t handle four members logging in at once.
Yes. Reconciling Stripe subscriptions against MemberPress access is a core check. Real audits have surfaced members paying but locked out, subscriptions set up as one-time instead of recurring, and duplicate subscriptions overcharging members two to three times.
That’s fine. The audit and the fixes are separate on purpose, so you can take the plan to any developer if you’d rather not have us do the work. If you do want us, the plan usually becomes a Managed TechOps retainer, month to month, with no minimum term.
Reviewed by the MemberFix team, led by Vic Dorfman, WordPress developers with 10+ years auditing, fixing, and scaling membership, course, and eCommerce sites. Last reviewed September 2026.