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Better WP Security

Helps secure WordPress by protecting your single or multi-site installation from attackers. Hardens standard WordPress security by hiding vital areas

Download Version 2.18

Author: Bit51

#1 WORDPRESS SECURITY PLUGIN

Better WP Security takes the best WordPress security features and techniques and combines them in a single plugin thereby ensuring that as many security holes as possible are patched without having to worry about conflicting features or the possibility of missing anything on your site.

Current features

  1. Remove the meta "Generator" tag
  2. Removes login error messages
  3. Change the urls for backend functions including login, admin, and more
  4. Limit admin access to specified IP or range of IP addresses
  5. Ban troublesome bots and other hosts
  6. Completely turn off the ability to login for a given time period (away mode)
  7. Prevent brute force attacks by banning hosts and users with too many invalid login attempts
  8. Display a random version number to non administrative users anywhere version is used (often attached to plugin resources such as scripts and style sheets)
  9. Remove theme, plugin, and core update notifications from users who do not have permission to update them (useful on multisite installations)
  10. Remove Windows Live Write header information
  11. Remove RSD header information
  12. Strengthen .htaccess settings
  13. Enforce strong passwords for all accounts of a configurable minimum role
  14. Detect attempts to attack your site
  15. Rename "admin" account
  16. Security checker
  17. Change the WordPress database table prefix
  18. Force SSL for admin pages (on supporting servers)
  19. Change wp-content path
  20. Turn off file editing from within WordPress admin area
  21. Works on multi-site (network) and single site installations

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Warning

Please read the installation instructions and FAQ before installing this plugin. It makes some significant changes to your database and other site files which, without a proper backup, can cause problems if something goes wrong. While problems are rare, most (not all) support requests I get for this plugin involve the users failure to make a proper backup before installing.

Requires: 3.0 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.3.1
Last Updated: 2012-1-29 Downloads: 49,408

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See what others are saying...

  1. [Plugin: Better WP Security] 'Hide Backend' Not Functioning Properly (wp-better-security)
  2. I Can't Login After Installing Better WP Security, Even wp-admin link Broken
  3. [Plugin: Better WP Security] hide backend and rename content directory option doesn't work
  4. uninstall Better WP Security plugin
  5. [Plugin: Better WP Security] Limit admin access to specified IP or range of IP addresses
  6. [Plugin: Better WP Security] Minor typo in lockout notification email
  7. [Plugin: Better WP Security] Filter suspicious query strings breaks analytics
  8. Various Website Issues with Better WP Security
  9. Better WP Security breaks XML-RPC
  10. [Plugin: Better WP Security] "You don't have permission to access / on this server."