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WordPress is a great, flexible open-source CMS that allows you to change and modify the every inch of your website look with pixel accuracy. The same is about its scope of internal functions: there are thousands of plugins tailored especially for WP blogs. They allow you to broaden your website functionality, boost its overall performance, and what’s more important – secure your website from third party attacks.Given the overwhelming variety of WP security plugins, it can be rather difficult to find the best for your blog. It’s also important to ensure the plugins you choose won’t overlap and conflict with each other.

This plugin is a real godsend for those who’re tired of conflicting plugins. Better WP Security is a universal plugin that combines the most essential security functions. These include scanning your website for vulnerabilities and fixing them in mere seconds, banning malicious queries and blocking bots, preventing brute force attacks, as well as monitoring file system for unauthorised changes.

Although this plugin is very reliable and multifunctional, in case of a DDos attack it’s better to seek professional help from specialized web services like vistnet.com. These are the best choice for those website owners whose business won’t survive a single hour of the website shut down.

This is one of the best automatic protection plugins your WP blog can get. It also looks for your security system downsides and fixes them before hackers exploit them. 6Scan Security has a very wide scope of action. It protects your website from SQL injection, certain DoS threats, directory traversal and CSRF.

This is a 5-star security plugin that makes WP blogger sleep better at night. Not only does it offer a wide security functionality, but it is also very easy to use and requires no user intervention. The perfect option for novices.

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This handy plugin is the only WP security tool that can verify and fix your WP core, themes and plugins even if you don’t make backups (it compares those with the official WP versions). This multi-site compatible plugin includes a firewall, troublesome URL and antivirus scanning, live traffic scanning including crawlers.

Total Security is a top WP security plugin that checks your WP installation and reports discovered vulnerabilities, downsides and suspicious actions. Its powerful scanner will check your WP core for holes with one click.

If your hosting provider doesn’t offer backup a option, WP-DB-Backup is just what you need. This simple plugin lets you backup your most essential WP data in a matter of seconds. This is one of the most used WP plugins.

Unlike the aforementioned plugins, this one has a very narrow specialization: it limits the number of repeated attempts to log in (for each IP). It shows the number of remaining retries or lockout time.