- Hey y'all my name is Kori Ashton
and today we are gonna be talking about WordPress security.
If you have seen what's called a brute force attack
happening on your website or an IP threat were there are
coming in with different IP addresses
trying to knock on your door if you will
and gain access to your WordPress website
You absolutely need to have extra security in place.
So today am gonna show you a new to the market
as of today
great solution for you that you can plug in your
website and add that extra layer of security
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So this is the WordPress plugin.
It is over on WordPress.Org.
You can get it in the regular repository
and they even offer a free month right now.
They offering this a free month because it is new
to the market and they're wanting more and more
people to start using it and to get feedback on it
so take a look at it.
It does stop a lot of cyber threats.
I also want to mention that you certainly want to check with
your hosting company see if there are other solutions
that you can to have in place like adding
a SSL to your site.
This particular plugin isn't meant to be
your all in one stop shop for security.
This is just another added layer that there are offering you
specifically for blocking IP addresses
that are trying to to brute force attack
your WordPress website.
So this is the one you're gonna actually be looking for
you can copy that on your clipboard
and you're gonna come into your WordPress website.
Once you're here in your dashboard
you're gonna go ahead and head over into plugins
and say add new.
Then we are gonna go ahead and do a search for that
the IP Threat Blocker right,
here it is right here by Musubu right here install now
you're gonna look for that awesome green M
and of course you're gonna activate.
Now that's activated over here underneath setting
you're gonna a have an IP Threat Blocker plugin
and this is where you'll come right here
you will see this.
This is were you will actually type in your IP key
so this is after you've purchased a license
you'll have that to activate here, paste that in
and click save.
Then you can actually set it to automatically block things
any threats, any actually you can see the different things
that it will actually start blocking for you automatically
if it sense that it is a threat or potential threat to your
website or if you want it to go ahead and handle that
manually if you feel comfortable with that you can set those
manual settings here as well.
They have got a little bit of information on their website
that teaches you about that and then you will start to see
the IP addresses that become blocked listed down below.
Once you've pasted in your API key and click save
you will see this site license activated
you will see it listed there
and your often running, it is literally that simple
to add that extra bit of security for you.
Another really cool feature that you'll have inside the site
is now if you go over to tools you'll see an area that says
Site Health.
When we click on that it will actually do a quick search for
your website's overall health
and you'll see a little area here that says if it's good
or if there're issues that you should be aware of
and they walk you through the different security steps
that you need to take in order to be certain that
your configuration is accurate and safe.
If you're interested in learning more
about the plugin itself.
I will put the link to their website over here
you can come here and see all the different things
that it offers.
How simple it is to use, the license fee as of today is
20 US dollars per website if you start to purchase these
for additional websites or if you're a developer
they do give you price breaks so be sure check that out
er, cause you can purchase in bulk
and that's sometimes helpful to save some cash.
But overall I'm really interested to see
what you think about this plugin.
How you've been using it and the success you've had in
securing your website with it.
So be sure to comment in the thread below.
If you're interested in purchasing this
reach out to them directly
again I'll put the link below.
You can tweet to them once you actually purchase a license
you can reach out to them for support as well.
If you've questions about it, it's super simple to use
you just saw the whole process and just in these few minutes
I was able to activate it and get it up and running.
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All right y'all have a good one.
I will see you next time, bye everyone.
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