Plugin Reviews

AskApache WordPress Hardening Plugin

BlogSecurity released a popular article last year titled "Hardening WordPress with htaccess". It provided basic, yet effective techniques to harden a WordPress blog install.

Using Apache’s mod_rewrite allows us to perform basic filtering and application firewalling. AskApache is pushing mod_rewrite boundaries to the limits with a cool plugin that will allow automated anti-hack/spam htaccess rules.

The plugin [...]


Inspector WordPress Plugin Review

While going through the current security plugins for WordPress, I came across an interesting project called, "Inspector WordPress" which is not quite there, but may offer some extra protection in the future.

What it does

This plugin monitors each request to your wordpress blog and based on conditions you can define in the options pane it interrupts [...]