WP Shieldon – WordPress Firewall
WP Shieldon is a WordPress security plugin based on Shieldon library, a Web Application Firewall (WAF) for PHP.
When the users or robots are trying to view many your web pages at a short period of time, they will temporarily get banned. To get unbanned by solving Catpcha.
You can visit the plugin author – Terry L.‘s blog and try reloading the pages several times then you will see how this plugin works. You can also try Terry’s login page then you will find it protected. More information about Shieldon, please visit shieldon.io
Please note that there are three important things you must understand before using WP Shieldon:
- WP Shieldon is not for beginners.
- Turning
Trusted Botcomponent on to allow search engine crawlers such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, and others smoothly crawling your website.
Open Source Code
Plugin:
https://github.com/terrylinooo/wp-shieldon
Core library:
https://github.com/terrylinooo/shieldon
Features
- Realtime statistics – See who are browsing your website and their status.
- Beautiful and detailed statistics and dashboard.
- Block bad bots by default – Backlink crawlers, copyright crawlers and WayBack machine bot.
- IP manager – Block signle IP or IP range as you want. (IPv6 supported)
- Online session control – You can limit just how many visitors browsing your website. Good for webmasters whose blog is hosted on a share hosting.
- SEO friendly – You can allow popular search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo and others, put them in the whitelist.
- XML RPC, Login, Signup page protection.
- Multiple data drivers – Redis, SQLite, File system, MySQL.
- Multiple CAPTCHA modules – Google reCAPTCHA v2, v3 and Image CAPTCHA.
- XSS Protection.
- Page authentication.
- Many others you can find by yourself
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.