WordPress is currently the most popular and widely used blogging platform. It is being used by millions of people around the globe. Because of this reason, hackers and spammers are also taking keen interest in breaking the security of the blogs.
Though WordPress is very much secure by itself, but there is never too much ascertainable. The ‘numero uno’ priority for any blogger or web developer should be security. Due to the lack of security, any site can be hacked and altered, private information can be stolen, and countless hours of hard work can be messed up with. Here is a list of some of the top security plugins that are being used by users of WordPress to keep their site secured.
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1. Security Ninja
- perform 31+ security tests including brute-force attacks
- check your site for security vulnerabilities and holes
- take preventive measures against attacks
- don’t let script kiddies hack your site
- prevent 0-day exploit attacks
- use included code snippets for quick fixes
- extensive help and descriptions of tests included
2. BulletProof Security Pro
BulletProof Security Pro secures your ‘wp-admin’ folder and Root website folder with a single click. It offers security against all CSRF, Base64, XSS, RFI, SQL Injection and Code Injection hacking trials. Another useful maintenance feature is also added that allows developers to put up a “503 under maintenance” page while the site-owner works on their website.
3. wpOptimix
wpOptimix includes a firewall, malware and reputation scanner, secured-simplified login, brute force attack detection, backup, WordPress core scanner, and more!
wpOptimix is not only renowned for its security, but it also performed countless tasks and functions that support critical day to day aspects of a website operation. With 1000 happy users and counting with a 30 days money back guarantee, what else you have to lose?
4. AntiVirus For WordPress
WordPress is also prone to viruses, worms and malware like other sites. Your WordPress installation can get affected by these viruses. Spam injections are another serious matter of concern while operating any WordPress site.
AntiVirus for WordPress comes out to be an apt solution for this purpose which monitors malicious injections and also warns you about any possible attacks. It comes with multilingual support. The plugin is quite easy to use and blocks any malicious content, spam, virus, malware, worms and links. After enlisting all the blocks that are made, it sends an email to a predefined address with all attempts of intrusion that have been blocked and the white-listed IP addresses.
5. WP Security Scan
This is one the very useful plugins that should definitely be used regularly by every WordPress blogger. This plugin can move through every security loophole in a few seconds. A list of possible vulnerabilities is then prepared, such as file passwords or permissions, and also offers further suggestions on corrective actions to deal with them.
6. AskApache Password Protect
This plugin adds multi-layered security to the database of the website without controlling your WordPress blog or messing up with the database. It is designed and regularly updated specifically for stopping any automated attacks on the blog which utilize the vulnerabilities of the blog resulting the site being hacked.
It also blocks spam or malicious attempts to break-in into a website. Overall, this plugin saves and protects every type of resource like money, CPU usage and database resources from almost every type of basic attack.
Get AskApache Password Protect
7. Defensio Anti-Spam
Defensio anti-spam is one of the best and advanced spam filtering plugin that takes your and your blog readers’ behavior into consideration. It is equipped with many advanced features such as OpenID support, elaborated statistics, charts, RSS feeds of the comments on your blog (let it be innocent or spam-generated) and a counter widget.
8. WordPress File Monitor Plus
The main purpose of this plugin is to notify the owner about any changes made to the files or the site,by sending an e-mail. It also helps out in identifying and removal of the infected code on your site.
Get WordPress File Monitor Plus
9. NoSpamNX
NoSpamNX automatically adds some additional form-fields to the comment form of your blog, which is not visible to human users. If a spambot fills these invisible fields blindly (which they generally do with any form field), the comment is not saved. The owner thus can decide if he want to block the specific spambot or mark it as a spam.
10. WP-DBManager
WP-DBManager handles your WordPress database. It allows the owner for database optimizing, database repair, database backup, database restore, deleting the backup, dropping / emptying the tables & run optional queries. It provides support for an automatic backup schedule and also database optimization.
With the previous year being a year of most malicious attacks on websites, it is a matter of concern for every website owner to take suitable actions against the threats they may face in future which can affect their blog very badly. For the users who don’t code a lot, plugins are the best way to secure your blog. Most of them are free, easily usable and safe.
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Great article, ,thanks for the info and shared.
Welcome Frank.
Some links to the WordPress plugins section would be nice.
I also don’t see the point in linking the images to the image itself.
I searched for the plugins myself, but linking directly to the plugin would be helpful.
Thanks for pointing that out, links added!
Hello
What about a login plugin protection like “BAW More Secure Login” (WordPress official repo) ?
What so you think about this strong authentication free plugin ?
See you !
Looks interesting Julio, nice work, always good to have more than one level of protection.
Thanks for the list. Unfortunatly some of them are not very updated
but thanks anyway!
If you know of any of these have given you any problems let me know.
i would also add “Better WP Security” – http://goo.gl/4cCvx
OMG! I just activated and set up Bulletproof. Looks amazing! I am stoked. The real test will be watching what my monitoring service does when it scans my site tomorrow.
Same as @ChefGaby for this article to be(come) informative it needs links to the plugins mentioned. I tried searching for the first (Blackhole) but couldn’t find anything, so I won’t even bother with the rest!
Arghhh & Oops
Had this window already open since this am and only now had the time to read it and of course I did not refresh the page.
Seeing the links now, cheers!
Preventing the WordPress blog from unsavory characters is not a problem now. These WordPress security plugins help in minimizing attacks from hackers. These snippets of information helped me with respect to the security and so I thought of sharing them with you all.
One can also use services like Website Defender and Sucuri Site scan to check for vulnerabilities on your site. Check them out.
Hi,
I wonder if you can offer some advice on this. I have a blog that for the last 8 weeks has been receiving unwanted subscriptions. The trouble is I don’t know how they are coming through.
I use feedburner for both my RSS and email sign up. I have removed the contact us form and replaced with email address written out (the @ replaced with at).
I have updated all of the relevant plugins and version of WP but I am still getting fake signups that go into the membership section as a subscriber (which isn’t where the email subscriptions are recorded).
I am not a dev person so am struggling. Any thoughts people?
Perfect Article, thank you for the list, I used some them as like WP Security Scan, WP-DBManager, WordPress File Monitor Plus and AskApache Password Protect
they are good for me
best regards
Thank you! i’ve been hacked some weeks ago but still lookin’ for any good protection from malware.
By the way, WordPress Firewall 2 contains 2 huge security issues (XSRF and XSS), so, it will be deactivated soon.
Keep in touch, i’ll do a “3″
Thank you. Very useful plugin for wordpress security.
I like to know if these plugin conflict eachother.
Or which plugins work together… Anyone?
They should work together, best to try them out, its faster that way.
Take a look at the (relatively new) “Login Security Solution” plugin, http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/login-security-solution/. The attack monitoring examines user names, passwords and IP addresses. It accommodates IPv6. The password strength requirements provide full support for UTF-8 passwords, even those using alphabets with only one case. Plus it has a full set of unit tests.
thx
good job
Thank u for your list. It’s good..
i would also add “OSE Firewall” http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ose-firewall/, https://www.opensource-excellence.com/shop/ose-wordpress-firewall.html
Agreed, that plugin really seems to be gathering a lot of traction lately.
Great list of plugins exactly what i needed as i have created a new wordpress site. i would have been Great if you could advice the pros and cons some plugins. But anyway it is still good source.
hi all i’ve code a new antivirus perl based.
Functions:
1) found and remove malicious file and if you want make a backup.
2) found exploitables file and suggest update
video demonstration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLG2g5HsGnQ
if someone is interesting to test please contact me
last few testing and program will be public
regards
david
Hi Jean, nice blog. Thank you. I am currently working through the maze of WP security options trying to work out what to do and use etc. This certainly helps. Bulletproof security was recommended as well as WP Defender. I assume that either will do?
BulletProof security has been established for a longer period and is very popular, while WebsiteDefender still seems to be a bit hit and miss when it comes to customer satisfaction. Personally I would go for BulletProof Security as its a one time purchase, WebsiteDefender has some way to go yet, and they don’t even show their pricing until you go to sign up, not a nice practice in my opinion.
In one of the websites I manage I see lot of attempts to login to the website automatically. Those are from a particular countries and I can also trace out individual IPs from which I was attacked. I banned few countries and few countries from visiting my website. However I don’t think it’s a good method. I see lots of security plugins mentioned in this article. Is there any particular plugin that could be useful in dealing with my situation?
Thank you
thanks for the info. Greatly appreciated.
Has anyone used “Anti Malware”
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gotmls/ This is the link. It may be called GOTMLS. I really am new.