WordPress specific security and anti-spam plug-in
Many security experts point out that the most serious security threat is from malicious Web site, especially the one which was attacked and coded by malicious programs. And for the Blog owner, especially standalone blog build by Wordpress, should consider the security issue more seriously.
Following we introduce some good Wordpress plug-in for security and Anti-spam.
Anti spam plug-in
Akismet: prominent in the Wordpress community, our website also uses this plug-in to help block many spam messages, the result is good.
WP-SpamFree Anti-Spam: This plug-in not only can block spam but also trackback and pingback sent from spam blog site.
WP-hashcash: This plug-in intend to eradicate the spam on blog, and its principle is very simple. It puts a not easy identified JavaScript code on web page to ensure that a user open a browser page, not by program which generates a large number of automatic message.
WP ReCaptcha: This is developed by Camegie Mellon University. An authentication mechanism programmed to ensure that the robot (automatic program) can not recognise certification picture, hence to ensure that the message for real.
Math Comment Spam Protection: This is a advanced authentication mechanism, and users needs to answer the math question from a picture to ensure a real person to post message.
Security plug-in
WP Security Scan: This plug-in checks whether there are any security vulnerabilities and also recommended any up-to-date security practices to blog owner. Users will be able to produce high-strength password, scan important files and database, and hide WP version number, etc. to protect the administrator console.
WordPress Exploit Scanner: This plug-in will find all the files on the website, articles, message if there is any suspicion in the content, and also check whether the installed plug-in have any abnormal situation.
AskApache Password Protect: to provide users to choose the basic HTTP authentication algorithm to create a password, or to choose more powerful algorithms HTTP Digest authentication.
TTC WordPress Security Tool: The main function of this plug-in is to stop cross-site scripting attacks (Cross-site script, XSS).
Secure WordPress: Improve the Wordpress’s original security, such as to remove the login page error information, add new new index.html on plug-in folder, remove the pages which display management information of Wordpress.
WordPress Firewall: The WordPress plug-in use an algorithm to check the website browsing requests from internet, and can significantly block the majority of network attacks.
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