Excellent (and essential)

  • Having moved from a fairly obscure VPS to a linode recently (which are obviously much more publicly well known), I discovered that my sites were being hit but thousands of scans and bots. Installing Wordfence (the free version) fixed that. It is an excellent plugin which does a great job of securing any WP site (including my multisite) – offering rate-blocking, firewall and everything else you need and all of it adjustable. Because this is WordPress-specific, it makes a valuable addition to my general server security.

    This is so good, and requires so much work to keep up-to-date, that I am pretty sure that once the whole community becomes dependant on it, they will reduce the functionality and make us pay to move to the paid version, as this is the way everything seems to be going. I don’t make any money out of my sites and at some point it’s just going to become too much of a loss-maker for me.

    So I just hope the folks at wordfence keep providing this for free – it is an absolute must-have!

    • This topic was modified 1 day, 15 hours ago by thewoosh.
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  • Plugin Support wfpeter

    (@wfpeter)

    Hey @thewoosh, thank-you for kindly providing a five-star review and sharing your thoughts!

    It’s always a boost for us to see users who’ve found Wordfence more recently enjoying the features on offer and consider it a worthwhile security investment for their site(s).

    I agree, it can be quite alarming to suddenly see the sheer number of humans/bots hitting your site with URLs that don’t exist, trying out usernames, or being blocked for trying to access certain areas/plugin files etc. They’re usually just testing for the low-hanging fruit where an unpatched version of a plugin remains, there’s no security measures in place, or where there might be an easily guessed username/password combination. You’re well protected just by having Wordfence installed to spot these for you along with the other settings you mention.

    We have been in the WordPress space since 2012, and our mission has always been to provide thorough security to the whole ecosystem regardless of budget. We have expanded the team in those twelve years to include an internal Threat Intelligence team, whose hard work in addition to that of others in the community keep our customers safe with new signatures, firewall rules, and features. Purchasing a Premium license supports our work and comes with certain perks but the free version of Wordfence includes a high percentage of the base features our paid services do.

    We appreciate there are many sites ranging from hobbyists to corporations that all deserve to be protected from known and emerging threats. There are certainly no plans to pull the rug from under our free users’ feet.

    Thanks again and all the best going forward,
    Peter.

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