All In One Security Plugin for WordPress

Are you aware of any attacks by hackers on your site? Would you like to know?

If you want to know whenever there’s an attempt to hack into your site, this plugin is for you.

Firstly, here’s 7 ways hackers normally try and hack into your site.

Wordfence is a new plugin which provides an all in one security service for your installation.

Its a free plugin which also offers a premium yearly service offering additional security features PLUS premium support.

The only thing this plugin doesn’t do is backup your files and databases.

Premium Options

• Scan Theme files for infections
• View changes/repair Theme files
• Scan Plugin files for infections
• View changes/repair Plugin files
• Premium support

Basic Options

Once you install the plugin all you need to do is configure the settings.

Wordfence works great out of the box for most websites. Simply install Wordfence and your site and content is protected.

Alerts

Here you can check to be notified by email whenever there’s a security issue

Scans

The plugin offers a range of different security scans, some of which are only included in the premium upgrade.

Login Options

If you install this plugin there’s no need to install the limit login attempts plugin as well as you can see from the screenshot.

Other Options

There’s extra security options available after you install this plugin which are a bonus.

Live Traffic

WordFence displays a range of live traffic stats so you can see who’s on your site and what I.P address they come from.

You can use this feature to lookup any suspected hackers and find where they’re coming from to make a report.

Want to know which links the search engine bots are crawling?

Conclusion

Great security plugin for WordPress users especially if you’re on shared hosting which doesn’t provide any security scanning or backup.

This plugin doesn’t backup your site so you’ll need to arrange that yourself.

If you have any questions about this plugin, post it in the Wordfence forum or leave a comment below.

If you’re on managed hosting then you won’t need any security plugins as everything is already covered including daily backup and restore points.

Know of a better security plugin for WordPress?