Best Security Plugin for Newspaper

Been using Wordfence, but I don’t know what plugins work optimally with Newspaper. Been getting a lot of random people of China trying to hack into my site.

Did you follow the hardening docs in the wp codex?

There is also a security tutorial i did here awhile back you can search for.

These are the only officially tested and recommended plugins by tagdiv team https://www.screencast.com/t/BxtXu4mJ6S. Also, see this tutorial by @neotrope https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/tutorial-good-basic-security-practices/. Hey Chris, why not ask the team to pin this at the top of the forum?

Heh. I thought I did ! Didn’t they add to the ‘best of forums’ tutorials page or something, at least.

Dunno. Have not been around here for awhile, only popped back in due to the subject of the impending ‘guterberg virus’ hitting WP with 5.0 (kidding; I mean the ‘feature’). 😉

Ideally they would pin link to that in the formal documents section – as a “securing your website” for folks reading the docs, as obviously this is kind of a “when setting up your site .. good idea to …” kind of thing.

I actually sent note to the WordPress core folk that they are long past due in adding an actual ‘security’ panel in the main WP admin with quick scan of system (e.g., if WooCommerce can check system why not WP core?), pointers for security best practices, etc. Seriously, how long did it take them to change the default admin account from ‘admin’ when setting up the WP core? Sheesh. And why not an option for a recaptcha at least on the password reset page? (esp in WooCommerce??). Why not an option to disable XMLRPC if not actually using it? Why not option to disable password reset screen entirely for corporate sites? Why not option to enforce superuser for non-multi sites which doesn’t get printed in the JSON and revealed as owner when building pages? The fact WP ‘exposes’ the main admin user building pages in WP, is incredibly stupid. Why not build-in something like the Limit Login Attempts plugin? Argh.

WordPress Security —
“good luck out there” — Automattic.

(sorry… venting … so irritated by WP more interested in Gutenberg than security priority … that should be focus #1, not #5).

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• This reply was modified 8 years by simchris.
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Seen it. Thanks Bogdan. Very useful.