WordPress security plugins
As any other IT security enthusiast I have limited trust towards the platforms I use, the current case being WordPress. The intention was there (to write my own blogging platform) but quickly gave up to it, mostly due to lack of time…
I had a to make a compromise; use the platform but try to secure it as well… But instead of applying security from outside the platform, this time I was going to write WordPress plugins to do the job… five/ten minutes into coding stuff, I was like:
Wait! What the fuck am I doing? WordPress has got a huge number of extensions, for sure it’s got security oriented ones as well.
And I was right… after browsing a couple of minutes through them (I didn’t say there where many) I’ve came up with the following list of security extensions which I liked: Login LockDown, Paranoid911, Restrict Login By IP, Times to Come security plugin and WP Security Scan.
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