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WTB Firewall is a lightweight but powerful WordPress firewall plugin designed to help you protect your site from unwanted visitors, brute-force attacks and malicious traffic.
The plugin allows you to define clear access rules, automatically block suspicious behaviour, and correctly detect real visitor IP addresses even when your site is behind a proxy or CDN.
<h4>Core Features</h4>
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<li>Manual IP allow and block rules</li>
<li>Country-based access control</li>
<li>Automatic blocking after repeated authentication failures</li>
<li>Built-in rate limiting to protect your site from excessive requests and abuse</li>
<li>404 monitoring to detect and block traffic generating repeated missing-page errors</li>
<li>Proxy support with trusted header detection</li>
<li>Lightweight design with minimal performance impact</li>
<li>Clean WordPress-native admin interface</li>
</ul>
<h4>Why use WTB Firewall?</h4>
Many WordPress security plugins include dozens of features that add complexity and overhead. WTB Firewall focuses on essential firewall functionality so you can:
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<li>Stop brute-force login attempts</li>
<li>Restrict access from unwanted regions</li>
<li>Block abusive visitors quickly</li>
<li>Ensure accurate IP detection behind proxies or CDNs</li>
<li>Keep your site fast while improving security</li>
</ul>
<h4>Designed for Performance</h4>
WTB Firewall is built with performance and reliability in mind. Rules are processed efficiently, unnecessary background tasks are avoided, and the plugin integrates cleanly with WordPress without slowing down your site.

WTB Firewall

WordPress firewall plugin with IP blocking, country rules, brute-force protection and proxy support to secure your site.

Ralf Naumann

eSherpa Login Guard effectively and intelligently protects your WordPress site from brute-force attacks – Swiss precision, completely without external dependencies.
Key Features:
<ul>
<li>Honeypot-first bot defense: JavaScript Honeypot detects non-browser bots and triggers immediate lockout logic.</li>
<li>Protected username trap: Immediate lockout for defined usernames (e.g., “admin”, “test”), independent of the regular counter.</li>
<li>Proactive User-Agent blocking: Block known bot signatures before login processing (exact match or substring mode).</li>
<li>Blocked User-Agent attempt log: Separate log table for blocked User-Agent requests including matching pattern.</li>
<li>WordPress hardening options: Disable XML-RPC (with fake-user honeypot response), hide REST user endpoint, and block author archive enumeration.</li>
<li>Optional bot password capture: Store attempted passwords from detected JS-honeypot bots for incident analysis.</li>
<li>Neutral login error option: Hide username enumeration by using neutral WordPress login error responses.</li>
<li>Live security visibility: Live alarm in admin, lockout badge in menu, and detailed failed-attempt logs with IP/User-Agent filters.</li>
<li>Progressive lockout durations: Lockout time increases on repeat offenses (e.g., 15 → 30 → 60 → 120 minutes).</li>
<li>Login page guidance: Clear countdown and “X attempts remaining” notice for transparent lock state.</li>
<li>Privacy-compliant: IPs stored only as anonymized hashes.</li>
<li>Automatic cleanup of old failed attempts (configurable).</li>
<li>Mobile-friendly admin tables: Horizontal scrolling for wide security tables on small screens, including swipe hint.</li>
<li>Email notification to admin on attacks against existing users.</li>
</ul>
Developed in Switzerland – fast, clean, performant, and multilingual ready.
Compatible with WordPress 6.9 and tested up to PHP 8.5.3.

eSherpa Login Guard

Intelligent login protection with honeypot detection, WordPress hardening, and a clear security admin overview.

WTB Firewall vs eSherpa Login Guard