Please suggest alternatives for Wordfence

  • Wordfence can be a useful tool, but the UI is going Fisher-Price and the plugin is getting bloated with other stuff I don’t want yet keeps pestering me to do “for my own good” without considering what I may have already done. (In some ways WordPress itself is getting too much this way)

    I would like something that lets me quickly read access logs and helps me block IP ranges based on that. I need to do it a lot and often work in lots of tabs at once.

    Anyone comes up with a tool like that I’ll buy it.

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  • Jason King

    (@jasoncharlesstuartking)

    There’s Sucuri but it’s similar in scope to WordFence.

    To be honest, I think that any thorough enough security plugin will have a lot of options.

    I don’t think it’s effective to try to check and block IPs manually, it really is better to leave that task to a plugin that does it automatically (but also allows you to add IPs manually).

    Maybe look at iThemes Security, not tried it but their other plugins are pretty useful.

    @seedy
    I can highly recommend the NinjaFirewall

    Thread Starter seedy

    (@seedy)

    Thank you for the replies. I did try Ninja for a while and it is good if a bit fussy to use, but Shield is now my firewall because of one unique feature that saves a lot of trouble for me. Not going to state publicly what it is but have a peep into the admin panel. Undetectable by browsing files, keep that in mind as you do.

    I “separate flyshit from pepper” with IP blocking because full country blocklists don’t work for my particular intended audiences, legit readers all over amongst the probers and slurpers.

    Anyway, I reverted the databases and reinstalled a copy of the previous Wordfence from backup, which still works with 4.5. Wordfence does some things really well and would be well-advised to keep focusing on them rather than attempting to do everything, meanwhile I’ll keep looking for another way while remembering to never update Wordfence again.

    And that’s my next quest, how to turn off the Update alerts. I’m going to coast along on what I have for a while. The previous 10 pages or so of trouble posts ought to be enough explanation for that.

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