Best WordPress Security Plugin?

  • 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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  • 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

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    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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