Silence is Golden Guard
Silence is Golden Guard plugin prevents WordPress blog directories from listing if visitor types just directory name as the URL, e.g.
http://yourdomain/wp-content/plugins/
Plugin can automatically check WordPress site state and fix it if needed once a day.
The checking are:
* .htaccess file. If it has not Options -Index line, plugins makes
backup copy and adds Options -Indexes line into .htaccess file in the WordPress
root directory.
* Plugin can check if empty index.php file exists in the every directory. If index.php file doesn’t exist,
plugin creates one with comments line ‘Silence is golden’ as WordPress does.
This check and fix are useful as many plugin authors do not put index.php files into their plugin directories.
Redirect to the site root option from index.php call is available.
* Other functions:
* remove unused files (readme.txt, screenshot-.) from plugins folders, which could expose plugin versions to attacker.
* remove WordPress version information from blog pages.
You can find more infomation here at shinephp.com
There is a very strong recommendation to make full backup of your blog before you activate SIG plugin. If you have development copy of your blog at the same webhost I recommend you to give a SIG plugin first try at the test environment as there are small amount of incidents when with redirection to site root option turned on automatically created empty index.php file caused endless redirect loop and prevents site loading.
It could be the case if you use child theme and theme_name-child folder has not its own index.php file and some other cases which are not isolated yet.
Special Thanks to
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Translations
- Arabic: mr.Ahmad
- French: Whiler
- German: Tom
- Italian: Alessandro Mariani
- Lithuanian: Vincent G
- Russian: Vladimir
- Spanish: Omi
Dear plugin User,
if you wish to help me with this plugin translation I very appreciate it. Please send your language .po and .mo files to vladimir[at-sign]shinephp.com email. Do not forget include your site link in order I can show it with greetings for the translation help at shinephp.com, plugin settings page and in this readme.txt file.
Additional Documentation
You can find more information about “Silence is Golden Guard” plugin at this page
http://www.shinephp.com/silence-is-golden-guard-wordpress-plugin/
I am ready to answer on your questions about plugin usage. Use ShinePHP forum at
http://shinephp.com/community/forum/silence-is-golden-guard/
or plugin page comments and site contact form for it please.
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.