Title: Best WordPress Security Plugin?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Best WordPress Security Plugin?

 *  [mbnocx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbnocx/)
 * (@mbnocx)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-wordpress-security-plugin-4/)
 * I have seen several topics about WP blogs being hacked discussed on other sites.
   I know this is something that has been around for awhile and is nothing new. 
   However, there are many security plugins for WP that I just don’t know where 
   to start. I hate installing a plugin only to remove it if it’s no good. Plus 
   with some of these plugins they make significant changes to the blog software
   and backing out might not be as easy.
 * I was going to try out Better WP Security but I just read about Wordfence and
   now I am not sure. 🙂 There are others too. I am hoping to get an idea of what
   people use around here. What’s your favorite and what are some of the great features
   about the one you use? Thanks in advance for taking the time to reply.
 * – Mark

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 *  [Ckenn27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ckenn27/)
 * (@ckenn27)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-wordpress-security-plugin-4/#post-4034903)
 * Mark, I am fairly new to this myself but when researching this topic I realized
   a good thing to do is to update your /robots.txt. It helps to prevent search 
   engine bots from accessing information that would otherwise be private. You can
   look that up and usually people will post what they have in that section. There
   is a plugin that allows you to type it on WordPress and that will automatically
   update it which makes it much easier to do.
 *  Thread Starter [mbnocx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbnocx/)
 * (@mbnocx)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-wordpress-security-plugin-4/#post-4034931)
 * Thanks Ckenn27! Good idea about robots.txt.
 * This is what was already in my robots.txt file. Are there any other folders that
   should be excluded from the search engines?
 *     ```
       User-agent: *
       Disallow: /wp-admin/
       Disallow: /wp-includes/
       ```
   

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 * Last reply from: [mbnocx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbnocx/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-wordpress-security-plugin-4/#post-4034931)
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