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Login Security with Telegram Alerts is your comprehensive solution for fortifying WordPress login security and staying informed about critical site activities. It actively combats brute-force attacks, enhances user authentication with multi-factor options, and provides real-time alerts directly to your Telegram. Scalable for any site size, from personal blogs to large enterprises, it ensures your WordPress site remains secure and you’re always in the loop.
Key Features: 
Login Security with Telegram Alerts is packed with powerful features designed to give you peace of mind and full control over your site’s access.
Brute-Force Protection: Automatically blocks suspicious IP addresses after a configurable number of failed login attempts, effectively preventing dictionary attacks and credential stuffing.
Real-time Telegram Notifications: Receive instant alerts for failed login attempts and successful logins, delivered directly to your chosen Telegram channel, group, or private chat. This provides immediate awareness of critical site events, enabling prompt action.
Comprehensive Activity Logging: Maintains detailed records of both failed and successful login events, capturing critical information such as IP addresses, usernames, login times, and user agents. This log is invaluable for auditing and identifying suspicious patterns.
IP Management: Block or unblock IP addresses directly from the Activity Log with one-click actions. Administrators can manually manage IP blacklists and whitelists from the plugin’s settings page. 
WordPress Core Files Integrity Check: Verify that WordPress core files haven’t been tampered with by comparing them against official checksums from WordPress.org.
File Permissions Management: Automatically check and fix file permissions to match WordPress security standards, ensuring your installation follows best practices. 
Custom Admin URL: Hide your wp-admin login URL by creating a custom access point, adding an extra layer of security by obscurity.
Geolocation Integration: Includes location data in Telegram notifications, adding crucial context to security alerts and aiding in the investigation of suspicious activities. 
User-Friendly Admin Interface: An intuitive, tabbed settings page contributes to a clean and easy-to-use experience. 
Why Choose Login Security with Telegram Alerts?
Comprehensive Security: Provides advanced features that actively defend your site against common and persistent threats. 
Instant Awareness: Critical updates are delivered directly to Telegram, facilitating immediate action and providing peace of mind to site administrators. 
User-Friendly: Engineered for quick setup, often achievable in minutes, with an intuitive interface that makes configuration accessible to users of all technical levels. 
Performance Optimized: Built with efficiency in mind, ensuring that robust security measures do not compromise site speed. 
Dedicated Support: A passionate team is committed to providing prompt and helpful support, aiming to ensure users maximize the plugin’s potential. 
Compatibility & Requirements:
WordPress Version: 5.0 or higher (Tested up to 6.9) 
PHP Version: 7.2 or higher (PHP 7.4+ recommended for optimal performance and security) 
Performance Considerations: 
Login Security with Telegram Alerts is designed with performance in mind:
Efficient API Calls: When interacting with external services like Telegram’s API, the plugin uses WordPress’s built-in HTTP API for reliable and performant requests, minimizing impact on page load times. 
Optimized Database Interactions: Designed to minimize database queries and employs best practices for data storage and retrieval, ensuring your site’s database remains lean and responsive. 
Lightweight Codebase: Development emphasizes avoiding bloated scripts and unnecessary assets, ensuring the plugin adds minimal overhead to site resources. 
Security Best Practices: 
Beyond merely claiming to be “secure,” Login Security with Telegram Alerts implements rigorous security measures:
Nonces: All critical actions and forms within the plugin utilize WordPress Nonces to protect against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. 
Input Sanitization: All user input is rigorously sanitized before processing or storage to prevent malicious code injection, such as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. 
Output Escaping: Data displayed on both the frontend and backend is properly escaped to prevent XSS vulnerabilities. 
Capability Checks: Access to plugin functionalities is strictly controlled by checking user capabilities using current_user_can(), preventing unauthorized users from performing actions they are not permitted to. 
Regular Audits: The plugin’s codebase undergoes regular scanning and updates to address emerging security vulnerabilities. 
Internationalization (i18n): 
Login Security with Telegram Alerts is fully internationalized, allowing for seamless translation into any language. All strings are meticulously wrapped in gettext functions, and a dedicated text domain (login-security-with-telegram-alerts) ensures compatibility with WordPress’s robust translation system.
<h3>Third-Party Services</h3>
This plugin may connect to external services to provide certain features:
Telegram API (api.telegram.org) 
– Used for: Sending security notifications to your configured Telegram bot 
– Triggered when: You enable Telegram notifications and configure a bot token and chat ID 
– Privacy Policy: https://telegram.org/privacy 
– Terms: https://telegram.org/tos
IP Geolocation (ip-api.com) 
– Used for: Looking up geographical location of login attempts 
– Triggered when: Geolocation is enabled in settings (optional feature) 
– Privacy Policy: https://ip-api.com/docs/legal 
– Data sent: IP addresses only
All external service connections are optional and only occur when explicitly enabled by the administrator. No data is sent without your configuration and consent.

Login Security with Telegram Alerts

Login Security with Telegram Alerts protects WordPress logins, stops brute force, logs activity, and sends real-time Telegram alerts.

shieldup

Tired of bad bots, scrapers, attackers and sluggish website performance?
By providing real-time monitoring of accessing IPs, HTTP codes, URLs, and user agents, organized analytics, customizable timeline and visualizations, ShieldUp will help you indentify and combat threats like bad bots, scrapers, malicous attackers.
Which will improve website security and performance by reducing the load on your server resources for a snappy website and great user experience.
<h3>Key Features</h3>
🛡️ Advanced Security: ShieldUp protects your site from malicious bots, scrapers, attackers and hackers, shielding your website from potential threats.
🚀 Optimized Performance: Improve website speed and user experience by eliminating unnecessary requests from scrapers, bad bots and brute force attackers
🗃️ Comprehensive Data Collection: ShieldUp logs and archive accessing IPs, HTTP response codes, URLs, user agents, timestamps, etc.
📊 Detailed Data Insights: ShieldUp will analyze, organize and displays IP data based on IP ranges, request counts, details, offering a comprehensive view of your traffic within user-friendly tables.
📅 Custom Time Period: Select specific time ranges through an intuitive calendar feature for in-depth data analysis.
📈 Visualize Data: Easily visualize traffic trends and patterns with our user-friendly graphs.
🛠️ IP Tools: Helps you with actions like retrieving detailed IP information from DB or third-party tools.
🌐 Cloudflare Integration (Pro): Seamlessly connect your website to Cloudflare, enhancing security and performance even further by leverage Cloudflare’s powerful features.
⚙️ Advanced IP Management (Pro): Take control with a click. Manage IPs and IP ranges effortlessly, with actions like blocking, JavaScript challenges, whitelisting, or remove rules using Cloudflare’s firewall through the plugin.
💼 Centralized IP Database (Pro): Keep all IPs controlled by your WP plugin and Cloudflare in a centralized database for efficient management and tracking.
📝 User Activity Logging (Pro): Maintain detailed logs of all IP controls by users, ensuring accountability and providing a historical record of security actions.
🏆 Priority Support (Pro): Pro members get priority support, so you can expect quick help with any questions or issues.
<h3>Please Note: Yes, the Pro version is undeniably impressive. However, the free version is really what you need and will get the job done.</h3>
<h3>How it works</h3>
1. Installation and Activation
Start by downloading and installing the ShieldUp plugin. Once activated, it seamlessly integrates with your WordPress, ready to work its magic.
2. Data Collection
ShieldUp starts by collecting crucial data about the traffic to your website. It keeps a record of accessing IPs, including HTTP response codes, URLs, user agents, and timestamps. This data is organized into user-friendly tables and presented through interactive graphs, allowing you to gain valuable insights into your website’s traffic patterns.
3. Select, Organize and Display Data
You can choose a specific time frame, making it easy to identify which IPs are accessing your site the most. It also groups IPs into /16 and /24 ranges and along with graphical representation helps you visualize trends, spot unusual activity and potential security threats.
4. Cloudflare Integration (Pro)
ShieldUp seamlessly integrates with Cloudflare in PRO version, enhancing your website’s security even further. Using the Cloudflare API, you can manage IPs and IP ranges right from your WordPress dashboard. Implement blocks, JavaScript challenges, whitelist entries, or remove rules with just a few clicks.
5. IP Tools & IP Management
Each IP listed in the user-friendly interface comes with action buttons, enabling you to ban IPs in your website’s firewall or CloudFlare, retrieve detailed IP information from third-party tools, and perform other custom actions.
6. Enhanced Security
ShieldUp employs advanced security measures to protect your website from a wide range of threats. It identifies and blocks malicious bots, scrapers, attackers, and hackers, ensuring that your website remains secure.
7. Optimized Website Performance
In addition to security, ShieldUp optimizes your website’s performance. It achieves this by filtering out unnecessary requests from bad bots, scrapers and other unwanted traffic. This optimization reduces the load on your server resources, resulting in a snappy and responsive website and great user experience.
<h3>Firewalls, What we recommend?</h3>
One of the best options would be a hardware-type firewall, but we wouldn’t be in this situation if we had one.
The next best option for managing HTTP and HTTPS traffic is a cloud-based firewall, such as CloudFlare, especially when it is available for free and offers a wide range of excellent features. In addition to that, we also use CSF for other security solutions and to manage traffic and ports related to services like mail and SSH.
So, why do we think CloudFlare is a better solution for HTTP and HTTPS trafic, than “Traditional” Server/Software-Based Firewall (CSF) especially Plugin-Like Firewalls (WordPress Plugins)?
Traditional firewalls, while valuable, have limitations when compared to Cloudflare’s robust security and performance capabilities. These firewalls primarily protect your server or website by consuming server resources, leaving them vulnerable to large-scale attacks, among other things. In contrast, Cloudflare operates a global network that defends against threats at the network edge, providing superior DDoS protection and accelerated content delivery. By choosing Cloudflare, you gain a comprehensive, cloud-based solution that strengthens your website’s resilience and speed, effectively surpassing the capabilities of traditional local firewalls when it comes to HTTP and HTTPS trafic.
Here are some of the main features of CloudFlare:
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Global Network Security: Cloudflare operates a vast global network that acts as a protective shield for your website, filtering out malicious traffic and threats before they even reach your server. This distributed approach ensures that attacks are mitigated at the network edge, preserving your server resources.
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Content Caching: Cloudflare’s caching infrastructure stores copies of your website’s content at data centers around the world. This means visitors experience faster load times as they access cached content from a server nearest to them, reducing server load and improving website responsiveness.
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Web Application Firewall (WAF): Cloudflare offers a comprehensive Web Application Firewall that can be finely tuned to your specific needs. It provides a robust defense against common web application attacks, such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS), without the need for additional on-site firewall plugins.
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IP Control and Access Management: Cloudflare’s firewall allows you to control and manage IP access with precision. You can easily set rules to block or allow specific IPs, IP ranges, or countries, giving you granular control over who can access your website.
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DDoS Protection: Cloudflare’s network is designed to withstand large-scale DDoS attacks, providing a shield against volumetric threats that would overwhelm on-site firewalls. This ensures uninterrupted website availability.
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Performance Optimization: Cloudflare’s content delivery network (CDN) optimizes the delivery of your website’s assets, including images, scripts, and stylesheets, resulting in reduced latency and faster load times for your visitors.
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Scalability and Reliability: Cloudflare’s infrastructure is highly scalable and redundant, ensuring that your website remains available even during traffic spikes or server failures.
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By integrating Cloudflare with your WordPress site, you not only enhance security but also optimize performance, reduce server load, and simplify IP access control, all while benefiting from Cloudflare’s global network and advanced security features. It’s a comprehensive solution that takes your website’s protection and performance to the next level.
This is why we use it on all our websites, including the Pro version of this plugin as well. Therefore, we strongly recommend that you use it for your website if you haven’t already, whether you intend to use this plugin or not.
Please note that we still use and recommend that you use a ‘Traditional’ server/software-based firewall like CSF, in conjunction with CloudFlare, to cover various security aspects such as traffic/ports for mail, FTP, SSH, etc.

ShieldUp – Bad Bots, Scrapers, Attackers


I was looking for something like this for quite some time, because nowhere you can find such well organized access logs by IPs and dates etc.This way you can easily identify bad IPs or IP ranges and ban them in your firewall.I've had many IPs and IP ranges that have attacked and scraped my website every day, that caused high CPU usage on my server,now CPU usage is reducing significantly , although I'm still fighting with these bots, but now I can see what is going on and act fast.



Also I can monitor what and when agents like Google or Bing are crawling my pages.



Thanks for the plugin and I hope you will make more interesting features in the future, I have some ideas that I can share.


Great security tool and cool idea, especially for first release

ShieldUp helps you to tackle bad bots, scrapers, hackers, enhancing website security and optimizing performance for a seamless user experience.

Login Security with Telegram Alerts vs ShieldUp – Bad Bots, Scrapers, Attackers