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Most security plugins try to do everything — firewall, blocking, malware scanning, email alerts — and end up bloated, slow, and full of upsells. Attack Monitor does one thing: it watches your site for common attack patterns and quietly logs them, so you always know what’s being thrown at your site. 
What it detects
Brute force login attempts 
XML-RPC abuse (including system.multicall floods) 
User enumeration via ?author= and the REST API 
Admin area probing by unauthenticated visitors 
Path and plugin scanning (phpinfo.php, .env, phpmyadmin, wp-config.php and more) 
SQL injection attempts in URLs and POST data 
XSS attempts in URLs and POST data 
Comment flooding
What you get
A dashboard widget showing this week’s attacks by category at a glance 
A full log page with day / week / 30-day / all-time views 
A bar chart of attack volume over time 
Top attacking IPs ranked by hit count 
Filterable event log with timestamps, IPs, URLs and detail 
Safe IP whitelist — exclude your own monitoring tools, cron jobs or office IP ranges 
CIDR range support (e.g. 192.168.1.0/24) for the whitelist 
A single lightweight database table — nothing else added to your WordPress installation
Philosophy 
Detection and blocking are separate concerns. This plugin handles detection only, leaving you free to choose how you respond — whether that’s Fail2ban, Cloudflare, a companion blocking plugin, or simply reviewing the data. No firewall rules are added, no requests are blocked or slowed down, and no data is sent anywhere outside your own database. 
Ideal for developers, agencies and site owners who want visibility without handing over control to an all-in-one security suite.

Janric Simple Attack Monitor

Lightweight attack detection for WordPress. Logs brute force, XML-RPC abuse, SQL injection, XSS attempts and more. No bloat, no blocking — just data.

David Matthew

TrimPress optimizes and trims some of the cruft from WordPress for a lighter, more secure theme!
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Slow down the Heartbeat API to save on admin-ajax usage.</li>
<li>Disable cart fragments, a resource-intensive WooCommerce script (TrimPress automatically detects WooCommerce and only shows this option if it is active).</li>
<li>Remove unnecessary clutter from the WordPress section, like RSS, RSD, WLW manifest and adjacent post links.</li>
<li>Disable the built-in WordPress code editors that allow users to modify plugin and theme code.</li>
<li>Limit post revisions, which can cause unnecessary database bloat.</li>
<li>Disable automatic emoji rendering, which adds several extra scripts and styles to your site.</li>
<li>Disable the XML-RPC interface, an older system for remote WordPress access that can be exploited by hackers. </li>
<li>Remove the meta generator tag and version url parameters that let potential attackers know what WordPress version you’re using.</li>
<li>Disable comment autolinking, a feature often exploited by spammers.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Development</h3>
<ul>
<li>Namespaced and object-oriented code.</li>
<li>Adheres to <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Coding Standards</a>.</li>
</ul>

TrimPress

TrimPress optimizes and trims some of the cruft from WordPress for a lighter, more secure theme!

Janric Simple Attack Monitor vs TrimPress