Hi Swier, Yep, if you already have a good CDN in …

Adding Flare To WordPress Management – Integrate CloudFlare Into Your iControlWP Account
Hi Mark,

CloudFlare comes before even Wordfence steps up… they fill 2 different roles.

What exactly is the role that Wordfence is playing for your sites? The scanning of core files? I’m not sure that you need both Wordfence and the WordPress Simple Firewall, but either way, always good to have CloudFlare on there – CloudFlare doesn’t negate the need to have a good WordPress Security plugin installed – you’d want both.

I hope that helps – unfortunately it comes down to each individual site and it’s hard to apply general advice.

Thanks!
Paul.

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Adding Flare To WordPress Management – Integrate CloudFlare Into Your iControlWP Account
Hey Steve,

It’s unlimited as far as I know… I have loads of free domains on my account.

Cheers,
Paul.

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Adding Flare To WordPress Management – Integrate CloudFlare Into Your iControlWP Account
Hey Steve,

Glad to hear you like this little addition!

Thanks for the feedback 🙂
Cheers,
Paul.

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Security: Hide The WordPress Login and Admin Pages (wp-login.php)
Hey Rob,
Brilliant news… Glad it’s working so well for you!

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Part 5: Ultimate Comment SPAM Killer – Shield WordPress Security Plugin
Why does WordPress need to do that? I’ve no idea… that’s the way the author of this particular code decided to implement this. 🙂

My approach is to take each “spam” word/pattern and I use “stripos()” on each item of the comment that needs to be checked.

The truth is that efficiency isn’t hugely important in this area because it’s only run when a comment is posted. I could probably optimize my approach too, but again, it’s not critical.

Further reading: http://lzone.de/articles/php-string-search.htm

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Part 4: Login Protection – Shield WordPress Security Plugin
There’s nothing you can do about that unfortunately if the bots are cracking away at your page. Most bots would get blocked by the automatic blacklist if they’re repeatedly hitting you with this.

As to XML-RPC, we have a couple of options ranging from by-passing the login/user sessions systems to completely disabling it:
https://www.icontrolwp.com/2015/10/automatically-block-brute-force-amplification-attacks-against-wordpress-xmlrpc/

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Further WordPress Admin Access Lockdown
Eileen, Lynn,

The automatic updates system is WordPress-controlled and run on a WordPress cron. The Security admin access shouldn’t affect this. If you have enabled automatic updates, but restricted the system using the admin access and you find it’s not working as it should, please let me know in the support forums.

To your first question, if you enable this Security Admin system and lock-down any features, then you must, as an administrator or not, authenticate with the Security Admin system before you can make changes to the zones that have been restricted.

Let me know if it’s still unclear and I’ll elaborate further on areas you need.
Thanks!

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Part 5: Ultimate Comment SPAM Killer – Shield WordPress Security Plugin
This is something that you’ll have to test with your particular installation(s) and configuration. Aggressive page caching will probably affect this functionality, but that is the double-edged sword that is “caching”.

I’d be interested to hear what you find with your tests.

Thanks!

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