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?
Hi Brad,
You know the saying “You can learn something new everyday” Well this post and a few other pages I had time to read taught me a lot today, from knowing just what better plugins to use, because as you pointed out there are thousands to choose from, and about website security which was one of your links. I’ll definitely implement most if not all of your suggestions. Thanks once again for your help.
Stephanie
Hello Stephanie
There’s a few essential plugin which everyone should install. http://wpsites.net/best-plugins/7-must-have-plugins-for-new-wordpress-bloggers/
Thanks for the comment.
does the word fence slow your site down?
Stats won’t slow down your page loading times but it will use resources. What does slow down your site is images, javascript and css code.
Take the site speed test from my sidebar and you’ll see exactly what takes the longest time to load.
Most likely this will be Google javascript, sidebar images and css code.
Brad,
Where would you find this plugin? Is it under a different name in the plugin directory?
Thanks!
Hi Michael.
Here’s the link to download the plugin http://www.woothemes.com/woodojo/
Here you go Michael http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordfence/