WP Guard
WordPress Security, Firewall & Anti-Spam
WP Guard is a powerful website security app that will protect your website from hackers, attacks and other threats. It could protect your website from SQLi Attacks (SQL Injections), XSS Vulnerabilities, Proxy Visitors, Spammers, Malicious Files (Viruses) and many other types of threats.
WP Guard is a powerful website security app that will protect your website from hackers, attacks and other threats. It could protect your website from SQLi Attacks (SQL Injections), XSS Vulnerabilities, Proxy Visitors, Spammers, Malicious Files (Viruses) and many other types of threats.
It uses an intelligent algorithms (similar to the ones used by major industry companies) to detect all known hacker attacks as well as new unknown threats using code recognition and patterns, and automatically takes action.
WP Guard is directly integrated with WordPress, you can view all logs in the Admin Panel and it is also integrated with Ban System from which can be viewed and banned users and countries. WP Guard has many features and settings. With its help can be easily managed the security of your website.
- SQLi Protection
Protection from SQL Injections (SQLi) and XSS Vulnerabilities (Cross-Site Scripting).
- Proxy Protection
Protection from Proxy, VPN and TOR Visitors or so-called people hiding behind proxies.
- Spam Protection
Protection from Spammers and Spam Bots that aim to spam your website.
- DNSBL Integration
Integration with some of the best Spam Databases (DNSBL) to protect your website from Bad Visitors.
- Intelligent Pattern Recognition
Detects Unknown and Zero-Day Attacks and Exploits.
- Industrial-Strength Algorithms
Detects Known Hacker Attacks.
- Ban System
Helps you to block and redirect Visitors / Users (IP Addresses), Countries, IP Ranges, Operating Systems, Browsers, Internet Service Providers (ISP) and Referrers.
- Bad Bots and Crawlers Protection
Blocks many Bad Bots and Crawlers that will waste your website bandwidth.
- Fake Bots Protection
Verifying search engine bots that visit your website whether they are real or fake bots.
- Headers Check
Every visitor's response headers will be checked and if there are suspicious objects their access to the website will be denied.
- Auto Ban
Function that will automatically block attackers and threats such as Bad Bots, Crawlers and other.
- Threat Logs
Each threat and attack is logged into the database, so you can view them later. (No duplicates)
- Detailed Logs
The logs contain many information about the Threat / Attack like Browser, Operating System, Country, State, City, User Agent, Location on the Map and other useful information.
- E-Mail Notifications
You will receive an E-Mail Notifications when attack or threat is detected.
- Dashboard with Stats
On the Dashboard you can check the Stats for the protection of your website.
- Useful Tools
Collection of Tools such as .htaccess Editor, Hash Generator and other.
- Errors Monitoring
Useful tool that shows all logged errors from your website.
- .htaccess Editor
Edit your .htaccess file directly from the Admin Panel, no need to open it in any external editor.
- IP & File Whitelist
A list of IP Addresses and Files that will be ignored by the app and will not be blocked.
- Live Traffic
Observe your visitors in real time as they interact with your website.
- Visit Analytics
Track and analyze how people use your website.
- PHP Configuration Checker
Check current PHP Configuration for potential security flaws.
- Site Information
Page with a huge amount of Information and Statistics about your website.
- Login History
Helps you to track all logins and login attempts.
- Very Optimized
The script is very lightweight and won't slow down your website loading time.
- Fully Responsive
Looks good on many devices and screen resolutions.
- Easy to setup
The installation process is very fast, simple and easy.
- Easy for use
The script's admin panel interface is very user friendly.
and many more...
- Log into your WordPress backend, on the left menu, click Plugins -> Add New, then click the button "Upload Plugin".
- Select the WPGuard's ZIP file and click the button Install Now. (It is located in the "Source" folder)
- Activate the plugin after it's installed.
Update Steps
- Go to Plugins and deactivate WP Guard.
- Upload WPGuard's ZIP file in WordPress or replace all files in the "wp-content/plugins/wpguard/" folder with the updated.
- Activate the plugin.
If WordPress returns the following error:
Destination folder already exists. /www/wp-content/plugins/wpguard/
Plugin installation failed.
means that the plugin (could be a previous version) is already installed. In this case, you need to deactivate and delete the existing version first.
To delete the plugin, in the WordPress backend left menu, click Plugins -> Installed Plugins, find the plugin in the list.
If the plugin is not activated, click the link Delete to remove the plugin. Otherwise, click Deactivate first, then click Delete.
Note: If you change Warning Pages's titles you should change their Redirect URLs with the newly generated from WordPress.