WordPress is one of the best and SEO friendly content management system, working on WordPress is quite easier as compared to other web developing platforms for developers as it offers myriad of features such as design or selection of theme, plugins, security, tools backup and many more.
WordPress itself is a very secure platform, however, it helps to add some extra security and firewall to your site by providing many security plugins that enforce a lot of good security practices. These WordPress security plugins help you to secure your blog, websites from hacking, viruses, bugs and many other malwares that can infect your websites.
In this article we would like to present our audience some Best WordPress Security Plugins that would help you to protect your blogs, websites and let you optimize your websites for better user experience. We hope you will find this collection of plugins useful, feel free to share your opinions with us via comment section below. We would love to hear your feedback.
1. Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet Web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.
2. WP Security Scan
Acunetix WP Security plugin is a free and comprehensive security tool that helps you secure your WordPress installation and suggests corrective measures for: securing file permissions, security of the database, version hiding, WordPress admin protection and lots more.
3. Update Notifications
This plugin will reduce a lot of your headache by stopping the possibilities of attack on your websites. It will make sure that your wordpress website is fully protected and updated. This will reduce the threats coming to your website to large extent. This plugin will send the email to your mail id whenever any update is generated on your wordpress site.
4. WP Login Security 2
WP Login Security 2 provides enhanced security by requiring users to whitelist their IP address. If the IP address is not recognized, the plugin will send an email to the user with a link that contains a one-time key. Optionally the blog administrator can also be notified.
5. Wordfence
This plugin starts scanning your website if it is infected, then makes your website secure and also makes it 50 times faster. It is free and is compatible with different websites. You can even sign in with your cell phone. It blocks the attackers in real time and prevents them from further access.
6. All in One WP Security and Firewall
This is a comprehensive plugin that is very easy to use. It is stable and has goo documentation. It makes use of security grading system to check how well your wordpress site is protected against malicious attacks. It is completely free and does not make your site slow at all. It provides login, database, file, and registration security to the plugin user. The firewall prevents the spy to enter your website to large extent.
7. Login Security Solution
Login Security Solution secures your password to large extent. It strengthens your password, password aging option is also present, you logout from the idle session automatically. It even lock the IP of the attackers, if anyone tries to enter a wrong password.
8. Better WP Security
iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security) gives you over 30+ ways to secure and protect your WordPress site. On average, 30,000 new websites are hacked each day. WordPress sites can be an easy target for attacks because of plugin vulnerabilities, weak passwords and obsolete software.
10. Bulletproof Security
This is the login security and monitoring plugin that helps you to back up your database and prevent the attackers entering your website. It alerts you whenever someone tries to enter your website forcefully.
11. Website Defender
The WebsiteDefender WordPress Security plugin is a free and comprehensive security tool that helps you secure your WordPress installation and suggests corrective measures for: strengthening passwords, securing file permissions, security of the database, version hiding, WordPress admin protection and lots more.
12. Block Bad Queries
This plugin is the broken glass or a barbed wire on the top of the wall. It extends your firewall and very well filters the traffic that is coming to your website from the internet. All the poor traffic will be filtered.
13. WordPress File Monitor Plus
This plugin acts like that you are having number of cameras in your room and each camera is monitoring your room well. This plugin will easily monitor each and everything happening with your website. It will easily track the changes happening in your file system. You will be notified on removal or change of any file. It will also help in cleaning the bad visitors.
14. Sucuri WordPress Security Plugin
This plugin is the cleaner of infected website. This plugin will clean your infected wordpress site and will provide protection to your website. It will add web application firewall to your wordpress site along with the malware scanning file. Web application firewall will communicate with the Sucuri servers. If any site is under the attack via
15. Acunetix WordPress Security Plugin
The Acunetix WordPress Security plugin is the ultimate must-have tool when it comes to WordPress security. The plugin is free and monitors your website for WordPress security weaknesses that hackers might exploit and tells you how to easily fix them. You can see all your security alerts from your WordPress dashboard.
