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A lightweight WordPress security plugin to prevent brute force attacks and disable XML-RPC.
<h3>What can you do with WordShield?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Brute Force Protection</li>
<li>Disable XML-RPC API exploits</li>
<li>Change default Login URL –Planned</li>
<li>Add Security Headers –Planned</li>
<li>Content Protection –Planned</li>
<li>Login Security –Planned</li>
<li>Hide Generator Tags</li>
<li>Disable PHP Editing</li>
</ul>
<h3>Future Roadmap</h3>
<ul>
<li>Stop user enumerations.</li>
<li>Request rate throttler.</li>
<li>Prevent comment spam.</li>
<li>IP Ban.</li>
<li>Prevent code execution.</li>
<li>2FA</li>
<li>Backup & Restore.</li>
<li>Support for multisite.</li>
<li>Logs, Notifications, and more!</li>
</ul>
<h3>Note:</h3>
The current version of the WordShield Security plugin does not work in a multisite environment.
<h3>Advantages of WordShield Security Plugin</h3>
<ul>
<li>Lean Code— Unlike most other Security Plugins, WordShield focuses on the core functionalities and has zero bloat.</li>
<li>Ultrafast— This lightweight plugin adds negligible overhead to your website. Each new release is tested for performance before making it available for general use. </li>
<li>It added only 0.004 seconds of execution time in our internal performance profiling tests.*</li>
<li>Failsafe— This WordPress security plugin does not modify any core file. It does not alter the .htaccess file as well. With easy-to-use recovery options, you can be sure that your WordPress website will never break.</li>
<li>Best Practices— WordShield follows WordPress best practices and respects the coding standards.</li>
<li>Maintenance & Support— WordShield has a planned roadmap for the future. It is well-supported and updated for compatibility with each WordPress upgrade.</li>
</ul>
<h3>How to Limit Login Attempts in WordPress?</h3>
You can limit login attempts to your WordPress website using the WordShield security plugin. You can prevent Brute Force attacks with the following steps:
<ul>
<li>Open the settings screen after installing and activating the plugin.</li>
<li>Navigate to the Brute Force tab on the settings screen.</li>
<li>Set the maximum number of invalid attempts you want to allow for each user.</li>
<li>Set the time (in minutes) you want to lock a user account after exceeding the maximum number of invalid attempts.</li>
<li>If you do not want to prevent Brute Force attacks, select 0 for both of these settings.</li>
<li>Save the settings.</li>
</ul>
👉 The WordShield security plugin informs the user about the remaining retries before the account becomes locked. 
👉 If an account gets locked, WordShield informs the user about the time to wait before trying to log in again. 
👉 You can customize the default error messages in any language by keying in the message in the 2 optional fields. 
👉 Use %%MINUTES_LEFT%% to show the time in minutes in your custom message. Use %%ATTEMPTS_LEFT%% to show the number of retries left in your custom message.
<h3>How to disable XML-RPC API exploits?</h3>
XML-RPC is enabled by default in every WordPress installation. While XML-RPC is necessary for certain services and plugins like Jetpack, it can make websites vulnerable to remote code injection.
You can protect your website from the XML-RPC vulnerability as follows:
<ul>
<li>Open the settings screen after installing and activating the plugin.</li>
<li>Navigate to the XML-RPC tab on the settings screen.</li>
<li>Check the Disable XML-RPC checkbox to disable XML-RPC completely.</li>
<li>If you are using JetPack, you can select the Enable Jetpack access so that the Jetpack plugin continues to work seamlessly.</li>
<li>If you need specific IPs to access XML-RPC API, key in the comma-separated list of IPs in the Whitelisted IPs field.</li>
<li>Save the settings.</li>
</ul>
<h3>How to Hide the Generator tags in WordPress?</h3>
WordPress and WooCommerce generator tags let the potential attackers can easily identify the specific version of WordPress (or WooCommerce) you are using. This, in turn, exposes technical vulnerabilities thereby making your site more susceptible to hacking attempts.
You can hide the generator tags in WordPress by the following steps.
<ul>
<li>Open the settings screen after installing and activating the plugin.</li>
<li>Navigate to the Extras tab on the settings screen.</li>
<li>Select the checkbox Remove Generator tags.</li>
<li>Save the settings.</li>
</ul>
<h3>How to disable PHP editing?</h3>
You can disable PHP editing to prevent accidental changes in plugins and themes causing a complete system crash.
You can disable PHP editing with the following steps:
<ul>
<li>Open the settings screen after installing and activating the plugin.</li>
<li>Navigate to the Extras tab on the settings screen.</li>
<li>Select the checkbox Disable PHP editing.</li>
<li>Select the checkbox Disable theme change if you want to hide the Appearance menu as well.</li>
<li>Save the settings.</li>
</ul>

WordPress Security Plugin – WordShield

A lightweight WordPress security plugin to prevent brute force attacks and disable XML-RPC.

Themeisle

Creativemotion

Alexander Kovalev

webcraftic

Disable comments plugin is a useful tool for blog or site administrators that allows fully disabling or hiding comments for any post types, pages or attachments.
It removes the all comments related features and options:
<ul>
<li>disable comments on frontend at all;</li>
<li>remove comments option from WordPress dashboard menu;</li>
<li>hide comments option from the admin bar;</li>
<li>Turn off comments widgets.</li>
</ul>
In addition, this plugin can disable XML-RPC related functions in WordPress including disable pingbacks and disable trackbacks, and helps to prevent the attacks on the xmlrpc.php file. Lastly, it attempts to generate a “403 Denied” error for requests to the /xmlrpc.php URL, but does not affect that file or your server in any way.
If you want completely remove comments, you can do this individually for selected post types. You can easily bulk delete all WordPress comments in some clicks. No any other “Delete All Comments” plugins or phpMyAdmin needed.
You can disable comments but if you decide to leave them, you need to close comments external links from the search engines. By default when users places comments, the WordPress adds rel=”nofollow” attribute to the comment author URL and for all links in the comments text. However, already for a long time, search engines ignores this and follows links. It makes dozens of superfluous external links from comments that are do not bring anything good for your SEO. Disable Comments plugin makes all external links in WordPress comments invisible for search engines with Javascript and improves your blog or website SEO.
In addition, if you do not want to disable comments you may need to remove website field from the WordPress comment form. Note: you can remove comment author URL but this feature can be not work with some themes.
Generally, the Disable Comments plugin uses the intelligent algorithm to hide comments and remove comments. You just need to turn some toggles on.
If you come across any bugs or have suggestions with Disable Comments, please use the plugin support forum. I cannot fix them if I do not know about! Please check the FAQ for common issues.
<h3>Details</h3>
The Disable Comments plugin allows you completely disable the commenting feature in WordPress. When this option is on you will get the following changes:
* Easy Enable or disable Comments; 
* Disable comments globally; 
* Disable comments on certain Pages; 
* Disable comments on posts Only; 
* Disable comments on pages Only; 
* Disable comments for any post types; 
* Disable comments links in the Admin Menu and Admin Bar; 
* Disable comments related sections (“Recent Comments”, “Discussion” etc.) and hide from the WordPress Dashboard; 
* Disable comments related widgets (so your theme cannot to use them); 
* Disable comments “Discussion” settings page; 
* Disable comments in RSS/Atom feeds (and requests for comments RSS will be redirect to the parent post); 
* Disable X-Pingback HTTP header and remove from all pages; 
* Disable outgoing pingbacks; 
* Making comments external links “nofollow” and invisible for search engines; 
* Remove website/URL field from the comment form; 
* Remove comments, Delete comments in one click.
We recently added brand new features into the Disable Comments plugin. These are Disable X-Pingback function, Replace external links and Remove website/url comment field.
Some functions was taken from the following popular plugins: Clearfy – disable unused features, Bulk Comments Management, Spam Comments Cleaner, Delete Comments By Status, No Page Comment, WP Disable Comments, Hide “Comments are closed”, Hide Show Comment.
<h3>Advanced Configuration</h3>
Site administrators and plugin/theme developers can modify some of the plugin’s behavior through the code:
Define DISABLE_COMMENTS_REMOVE_COMMENTS_TEMPLATE and set it to false to prevent the plugin from replacing theme’s comment template with an empty one.
These definitions can be make either in your main wp-config.php or in your theme’s functions.php file.
<h4>RECOMMENDED SEPARATE MODULES</h4>
We invite you to check out a few other related free plugins that our team has also produced that you may find especially useful:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/clearfy/" rel="ugc">Clearfy – WordPress optimization plugin and disable ultimate tweaker</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/webcraftic-updates-manager/" rel="ugc">Disable updates, Disable automatic updates, Updates manager</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/cyrlitera/" rel="ugc">Cyrlitera – transliteration of links and file names</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/cyr-and-lat/" title="Cyr-to-lat reloaded" rel="ugc">Cyr-to-lat reloaded – transliteration of links and file names</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-admin-notices/" title="Disable admin notices individually" rel="ugc">Disable admin notices individually</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/gonzales/" title="WordPress Assets manager, dequeue scripts, dequeue styles" rel="ugc">WordPress Assets manager, dequeue scripts, dequeue styles</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/hide-login-page/" title="Hide login page" rel="ugc">Hide login page</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Translations</h3>
<ul>
<li>English – default, always included</li>
<li>Russian</li>
</ul>
If you want to help with the translation, please contact me through this site or through the contacts inside the plugin.

Disable Comments for Any Post Types (Remove comments)

Allows administrators to disable comments on their website. Comments can be disabled according to Post, Page, Media type.

WordPress Security Plugin – WordShield vs Disable Comments for Any Post Types (Remove comments)