Block Login Attempts From Scripts and Command-Line Tools
Refuses login, password reset and registration requests sent by tools such as curl, wget, python-requests or empty user agents, which real browsers never use and brute-force scripts often do.
Snippet Library
Security snippets for WordPress
Snippets that harden WordPress: turn off XML-RPC, hide the version number, stop user enumeration, add security headers and block risky uploads. Small, reviewable changes for site owners who want fewer attack points without a heavy security plugin.
Block Malicious Request Patterns
A tiny firewall that returns 403 Forbidden for URLs containing typical attack strings, such as directory traversal, SQL injection and PHP stream wrappers.
Block TRACE, TRACK and Other Unusual HTTP Methods
Answers requests that use HTTP methods WordPress never needs (such as TRACE, TRACK, CONNECT or DEBUG) with a 405 error before any page is built.
Bot Trap Link That Blocks Misbehaving Crawlers
Adds an invisible link that real visitors never see and well-behaved search engines are told to skip; any client that requests it anyway is blocked from the site for 24 hours.
Honeypot Trap on the Lost Password Form
Adds a hidden field to the lost password form that only bots fill in and silently ignores those requests, so bots cannot flood your users with reset emails.
Limit Password Reset Requests
Allows only a few password reset requests per hour from the same IP address, which stops reset-email flooding.
Protect wp-cron.php From Outside Requests
Requires a secret key for requests to wp-cron.php and adds that key automatically to WordPress's own cron calls, so outsiders cannot hammer the endpoint to slow your site down.
Rate-Limit the REST API for Visitors
Limits how many REST API requests a logged-out visitor can make per minute and answers "429 Too Many Requests" beyond that, slowing scrapers and scanners.
Reject Requests for Unknown Host Names
Returns an error for requests whose Host header is not your site's domain, which blocks host header injection tricks (such as poisoned password reset links) and junk traffic aimed at your server's IP.
Restrict the REST API to Logged-In Users
Returns an authentication error for REST API requests from visitors who are not logged in, with an allowlist for routes your site needs publicly.