Love & hate relationship with SecuPress

  • I’ve been using SecuPress for the past year and even became a Pro subscriber for the additional features.

    First impressions are great, I loved the user interface, simplicity, ease of use, awesome!

    But what I hate is the fact that I’m not sure how much can I trust this plugin.

    I’m using Wordfence for work websites. What I love about Wordfence is that these guys are on the top of their game, busy bees in a bee hive. Often there’s something new, a new update, the plugin is being looked after and it gives me a good feeling of security. If things go pear shape, these guys will help me out.

    Unfortunately I don’t get the same vibes with SecuPress.

    The plugin seems abandoned. There hasn’t been a single update in months. There’s been lots happening with WP development lately, we’ve got WP 5.6+ that came with a few changes to the security, yet the last update of SecuPress was over 7 months ago.

    It seems to be more of a school project rather than something to be taken seriously. Website security is a big deal. I don’t think I get that with SecuPress.

    Moving onto a different security plugin for now. Happy to give it another try if anything will change.

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  • Plugin Author Julio Potier

    (@juliobox)

    Hey Jeo, I’m Julio
    Of course Wordfence is good and of course they are good at work. They are really doing a good job. Thing is: I’m alone.
    I have to admit that it’s not updated enough, buy don’t get it wrong, it’s now a school project, our family of 6 is living thanks to SecuPress Pro. It’s my first source of revenue.
    And you know what? Next monday the 2.0 version is out, you should read our changelog, already teased on our site (/changelog ;p)
    See you soon Joe

    Thread Starter Joe Bloggs

    (@joe-bloggs)

    Hey Julio,

    Thanks for the reply. It only took a month ?? .. just teasing you!

    Anyway, from your version 2.0 change log, this one stood out:

    Fix#798: Google Bot was blocked due to a bad method query

    Don’t even try to tell me that SecuPress was blocking Google Bot this whole time, since the last update in May 2020, or maybe even earlier?

    See, this is exactly what I’m talking about. I understand you’re alone for this massive job, and good on you, it’s really great to see it’s working for you, however I am also running a business and it’s not just a little blog, and this business is relying on you and your plugin to work and be secure, so you have to understand my concerns.

    I’m not suggesting to take food off the plate of your children, but maybe you could find a way to re-invest some of your earnings, hire another part time developer to work with you, hire a part time marketing person and create a little team that would help you take this whole thing to the next level. That’s how you become Wordfence.

    As I said earlier, I love SecurePress for what it is, it looks great, it’s easy to use, it’s intuitive and it has a massive potential to become a competition for Wordfence, but it will need a lot more work, effort, time and money of course.

    Plugin Author Julio Potier

    (@juliobox)

    “Don’t even try to tell me that SecuPress was blocking Google Bot this whole time, since the last update in May 2020, or maybe even earlier?”
    Nononono this kind of bug would have been patched in a day.
    I was not talking about the SEO Bot, but some kind of API return done with a mathod blocked by SecuPress, only a few clients were affected but the SEO was not.

    “That’s how you become Wordfence.” I don’t want to become Wordfence or a Wordfence company like, I know what it is be start at 3 and become 20, I was one of the 3 funders of WP Rocket, I left them in may 2017, it’s so better alone oO

    Try it again, this 2.0 and the next ones (not in 10 months promise) are awesome.

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