List of popular and reliable WordPress security plugins
WordPress is one of the world’s most popular open source blogging and CMS (content management system) platform which offers vast features and functionalities. Being an open source website and blogging platform WordPress are always under threat if proper security measurement not taken, due to lack of proper security or protection chance of the website/blog being hacked are very high, hackers across the world consistently work hard to deface competitor or popular website or blog, steal important precious data, and demotivate from search engine rankings.
So to keep your WordPress website of Blog secure from hackers and ensure your efforts while building and maintaining good website or blog don’t go waste, here in this post I am going to share with you some of the popular and reliable WordPress security plugins that can save your WordPress website being hacked or defaced.
Better WP Security: This is one of the best free security plugin available in WordPress plugin repository to secure your WordPress blog or website. Better WP security has plenty of features to measure and boost up security of your WordPress website. You can install it directly from your WordPress admin dashboard by search with it’s name “Better WP Security” or even can access over WordPress plugins repository and download for manually installation.
Wordfence: Wordfence is also a good emerging free WordPress security plugin that can scan your whole WordPress website or blog from security threat and can alert you on suspicious action. To install Wordfence from WordPress admin dashboard search for plugin “Wordfence” and install it.
6Scan Security: 6Scan Security is the most comprehensive auto-fix protection your WordPress site can get against hackers. 6Scan Security defends your WordPress website against:
- SQL Injection
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- CSRF
- Directory traversal
- Remote file inclusion
- Several DoS conditions
- And many more, including all of the OWASP Top Ten security vulnerabilities.
BulletProof Security: It is a free WordPress security plugin to protect your website from critical vulnerabilities i.e. .Htaccess file security flaw, login and monitoring security etc. To install this plugin go to your plugins menu in your WordPress admin area and search for “Bulletproof Security” and install it.
All In One WP Security & Firewall: This is also one of the fine free security plugin to protect your WordPress website comprehensively from website vulnerabilities. It is a comprehensive, user-friendly, all in one WordPress security and firewall plugin for your site. Like every WordPress plugins you can install it easily through WordPress plugin options.
If you another better WordPress security plugins, don;t forget it to share in comment.
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1 comment on "List of popular and reliable WordPress security plugins"
Chris Finnegan
-Hi Durgesh,
I’ll add the Limit Login Attempts plugin to your list. It specifies how many
login attempts are allowed, and how long an IP will be locked out for too many failed
login attempts.
Cheers
Chris