WordPress Plugins A to Z Security Edition
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WordPress Plugins from A to Z Episode #92
It’s episode #92 and we’re presenting a special WordPress Security episode, focusing on protecting your site and keeping your installations safe and secure with special guest Robert Vance from Eagle Advanced Programming.
With Special Guest Robert Vance http://eagleapi.com/
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**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John**
Wordfence Security 3.3.7
Version: 3.3.7
Author: Mark Maunder
Last Updated: 4 days ago
Requires WordPress Version: 3.3.1 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.4.2
Downloaded: 136,817 times
The Lowdown:
Well in my opinion on this plugins and I have covered it in the past but I have found it to be very useful in finding issues and helping to keep a site clean. Once installed and configured you can set it to block all access when someone tried to login with an invalid username and to stop access after simply trying to use the recover password form. You can also throttle usage when someone or a bot access the site too fast. It also will examine the plugins and theme and compare them to the files at the wordpress repository. It emails you when issues are found or if someone logs in.
Rating 5 Dragons
WordPress File Monitor Plus 2.2
Version: 2.2
Author: Scott Cariss
Last Updated: 134 days ago
Requires WordPress Version: 3.1 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.4.2
Downloaded: 30,237 times
the lowdown:
Ok this is a simple plugin but excellent at what it does and has help me alot this past week. It monitors all your files and tells you when a file changes or if a file is removed or if a new one is added. You can set it to ignore things if you need to but on the whole it does a great job of notifying you of changes. I was able to stop hacker in their tracks when I got notification of file changes.
Rating 5 Dragons
**WordPress Plugins Reviewed by Marcus**
Bulletproof Security
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bulletproof-security/
Requires: 3.0 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.5
Last Updated: 2012-10-22
Downloads: 364,720
WordPress Website Security Protection: BulletProof Security protects your WordPress website against XSS, RFI, CRLF, CSRF, Base64, Code Injection and SQL Injection hacking attempts. One-click .htaccess WordPress security protection. Protects wp-config.php, bb-config.php, php.ini, php5.ini, install.php and readme.html with .htaccess security protection. One-click Website Maintenance Mode (HTTP 503). Additional website security checks: DB errors off, file and folder permissions check… System Info: PHP, MySQL, OS, Server, Memory Usage, IP, SAPI, DNS, Max Upload… Built-in .htaccess file editing, uploading and downloading.
Marcus’ Take: I’ve used this on my client sites in the past with great success. It not only checks the sites for the usual nuisances, but has diagnostic and htaccess editing capabilities as well.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Anti-Virus
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/antivirus/
Requires: 2.8 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.5
Last Updated: 2012-9-6
Downloads: 361,469
Scan & Notify
AntiVirus for WordPress is a easy and safe tool to protect your blog install against exploits, malware and spam injections. Scan your templates now!
Features
Virus alert in the admin bar
Cleaning up after plugin removal
Translations into many languages
Daily scan with email notifications
Database tables and theme templates checks
WordPress 3.x ready: both visually and technically
Whitelist solution: Mark suspected cases as “no virus”
Manual check of template files with alerts on suspected cases
Marcus’ Take: This is another great security plugin that I have used that is similar functionality, but what I really liked was the daily scan with email notifications, just letting me know that all is safe (or not) with my installations.
Rating: 4 out of 5
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Thanks! But I’m looking for a wordpress plugin that allows me to publish a post to social media in one step from the wordpress admin, rather than creating a post in wordpress, copying the link, and using something like seesmic or hootesuite. Any recommendations?
Hi Justin,
Sure you should try WP Tweet Button it does a great job of automatically tweeting out when you make a post and for facebook try Wordbooker..
John Overall