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WP AbuseShield

A simple and lightweight plugin that protects your WordPress against abuse.

by Mikołaj Kamiński · github.com/mikasjp/wp-abuseshield · website

★ 14stars
v1.0.0latest · never

Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/mikasjp/wp-abuseshield/archive/refs/heads/master.zip
No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.
Readme github.com/mikasjp/wp-abuseshield ↗

WP AbuseShield is a WordPress plugin that helps protect your valuable website against many types of abuse on the Internet.

How does it work?

The idea is very simple. The plugin checks the IP address of the new user in the AbuseIPDB via the API and checks if it has been reported in the last seven days. If IP is reported to AbuseIPDB, access is denied, otherwise access is granted.

Regular visitor

Malicious visitor

Features

  • Protects against malicious bots
  • Ability to verify the domain to increase the queries limits for AbuseIPDB

Extra features

  • Works well with CloudFlare
  • Plugin has a cache to save limited queries to AbuseIPDB and improve performance
  • Works without JavaScript

Getting started

  1. Install th plugin
  2. Register an account on AbuseIPDB as a webmaster
  3. Copy your API key to the plugin configuration panel
  4. (Optional) Copy your Domain Verification Code (from meta tag) to the plugin configuration panel
  5. That's all!

Bug reporting

Feel free to open issues. Remember to describe your problem accurately!

Releases

1 release.

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Published
v1.0.0 latest
Mar 23, 2018 8 years ago

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