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All iN oNe wP SeCurity & firewall PlugiN: a free SeCurity SolutioN for wordPreSS

WordPress is very popular platform and also secure but due to its popularity lots of hackers are trying to hack popular website based on WordPress. Besides hackers, there are also some other potential threats such as viruses, bots, and various other threa

- Raj Kumar Maurya

To protect your WordPress based CMS, there are some good plugins are available. All in one WP Security & Firewall Plugin is one of them which is free of cost. All in One WP Security and Firewall is a user-friendly plugin that approaches all the valuable security features that are essential for the WordPress website. The developer of this Plugin has categorize­d this plugin into “basic”, “intermedia­te” and “advanced” which one can choose as per security requiremen­ts. The Basic feature is an immediate action that should activate after installing to add a minimum level of security to your website. Whereas the Intermedia­te and the Advanced features are meant to provide more complex security structure and can stop the functional­ity of some plugins. So before activating any service of this plugin just ensure that some other plugin will not depend on or use that service.

Key Features of All in One WP Security & Firewall plugin

Here is the list of some major security and firewall features offered by this plugin. • User Accounts Security • User Login Security • Database Security • File System Security • htaccess and wp-config.php File Backup and Restore • Blacklist Functional­ity • Firewall Functional­ity • Brute force login attack prevention • WhoIs Lookup • Security Scanner • Comment SPAM Security • Front-end Text Copy Protection • Regular updates and additions of new security features

How it works Dashboard

The Dashboard of this plugin is very intuitive and lets you check your security strength meter, points breakdown as well as basic options and informatio­n. You also have tabs for your system info and locked IP addresse

General Settings

Second Tab is the General Settings where got the options to disable all the security features or all the firewall features of the plugin with just one click. Also, there are some other tabs which feature the backup and restore your .htaccess and wpconfig.php files of your website.

User Account

– Third option or tab is providing the features to increase the security to your username and password. Here you can change the Username and password from simple to a more

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