10 Must-Have Plugins to Secure Your WordPress Website

WordPress is perhaps the most popular and widely used blogging platform today. It is being used by millions of people around the world. WordPress is very secure in itself, but with every website you build, there are bound to be security risks and issues.

Hackers are taking interest in breaking the security of websites and blogs in order to hack all information or data. There’s no way around to completely avoid this; it’s going to happen. What we can do is to be prepared for it and to take action.

Today, we’re going to share with you a list of some amazing and useful security plugins that you can use on your WordPress powered website or blog. See what works best for you and use them to your advantage!

 

 

 

Better WP Security

This plugin takes the best security features and techniques of WordPress, and combines them in a single plugin. This ensures that as many security holes as possible are patched without having trouble about conflicting features or the possibility of missing anything on your website.

 

Antivirus

Antivirus is a WordPress plugin that will automatically scan your theme templates for malicious injections every day. This easy-to-use and safe tool will protect your website against malware and spam injection.

 

Exploit Scanner

Exploit Scanner searches the files and database of your WordPress powered site for signs that may indicate that it has fallen victim to malicious hackers. It scans files on your website, as well as the post and comments table of your database for anything suspicious.

 

Ultimate Security Checker

This tool will help you identify security threats with your WordPress installation. It scans your site and gives a security grade based on passed tests. Calculation of a letter grade is based on how secure your site is.

 

WP – DBManager

 

WP – DBManager is a security plugin that lets you optimize, repair, back up, restore, and delete the backup of your database, as well as drop or empty tables and run selected queries. It supports automatic scheduling of backing up, optimizing, and repairing of database.

 

Limit Login Attempts

This WordPress plugin limits the rate of login attempts, including by way of cookies, for each IP. It’s fully customizable. It also informs the user of the remaining number of retries on the login page, and handles server behind reverse proxy.

 

Spam Free WordPress

This comment spam blocking plugin for WordPress blocks automated spam with zero false positives. It’s a comment spam fighting plugin that can handle huge visitor traffic (if you’re using the premium version).

 

Wordfence Security

Wordfence Security is a free enterprise-class security plugin that comes with a firewall, virus scanning, real-time traffic with geolocation, and many other great features. It’s the only WordPress security plugin that can verify and repair your core, theme, and plugin files, even if you don’t have a backup.

 

WP Security Scan

WP Security Scan checks your WordPress installations for security threats. It suggests necessary actions such as passwords, file permissions, database security, version hiding, and WP admin protection. It also removes WP Generator Meta Tag from the core code.

 

BulletProof Security

This WordPress plugin protects your website from hacking attempts such as XSS, RFI, CRLF, CSRF, Base64, Code Injection, and SQL Injection. It’s especially designer to be fast and simple – a one-click security plugin.

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