All In One WP Security And Firewall Plugin

All In One WP Security And Firewall Plugin helps you setup this great and powerful plugin which covers and protects many WordPress areas.

Last Updated: May 25, 2023

Latest News: Updated the documentation.

All In One WP Security And Firewall Plugin

WordPress is still one of the most popular CMS platforms in 2017. This also means that more hackers are going to try and break into your site. Lucky for you All In One WP Security and Firewall “AIOWPS” is here to protect your site. It has been designed and developed to protect your site from hackers and more.

All In One WP Security And Firewall Plugin is designed to help those who don’t have any knowledge of security and have no idea how to protect their site using a security plugin. For that reason the developers have added instructions and or information next to each option in the plugin settings. This allows you to read and understand more about each feature before you decide to enable that feature.

All In One WP Security & Firewall version 5.1.9 Changelog.

• FEATURE: IP addresses – Blacklist manager functionality based on PHP instead of .htaccess rules. Added AIOS_DISABLE_BLACKLIST_IP_MANAGER constant, Define it in your wp-config.php to disable IP Blacklist manager.
• FEATURE: Detect spambots posting comments and discard it completely or mark as spam.
• FEATURE: Encrypt TFA secret keys that are stored in the database (extra protection in case of your database being hacked)
• FEATURE: Added a “Delete all” and “Delete filtered” bulk action to the audit log table
• FIX: Prevent Cloudflare Turnstile being added to login forms when no credentials where set
• and more.

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GDPR (DSGVO) compliance

Currently the plugin developer has replied in the forum to help you with GDPR (DSGVO) compliance questions. Please check the following support threads to learn more. This could change in a future release.

• Data Processing Agreement needed – Developer support thread reply.
• GDPR (DSGVO) compliance – Developer support thread reply.
• Still unclear if GDPR compliant – Developer support thread reply.
• Another answer by the developer for the new owners of the plugin – Developer support thread reply.

 What you need:

• All In One WP Security And Firewall
• Country Blocking Add-on = Premium add-on. (Optional)
• www.site-scanners.com = This is a premium service which is part of the plugin. (Optional but highly recommended. It is important to keep monitoring your site.)
• Smart 404 blocking Add-on = Premium add-on. (Optional)

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WP Security Admin Menu

When you log into your WordPress admin panel, click on WP Security found on your left hand sidebar. You will see an admin menu as illustrated in the image below.

The following list of tutorials provides information about each admin tab. It also shows you how to set up each feature in admin. Some tabs have a number of total points you can gain if you enabled all features with a number value assigned to them. This number is added to the Dashboard Security Strength Meter after you have completed enabling your settings and saved them. The total achievable count in the meter is 525 points. However you will not reach this maximum amount because in some settings you can’t enable all features.

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Note: The following image is displayed when you install and activate the security plugin for the first time. This allows you to setup PHP-based firewall or dismiss it. Click on the following link Firewall Advanced Settings to learn more.

All In One WP Security And Firewall Tutorials:

1. Dashboard
   1. Audit logs
2. Settings = Total security strength meter 5 points
   1. AIOWPS Import/Export Settings
3. User Accounts = Total security strength meter 20 points
4. User login = Total security strength meter 35 points
5. User Registration = Total security strength meter 50 points
6. Database Security = Total security strength meter 10 points
7. Filesystem Security = Total security strength meter 40 points
8. Blacklist Manager = Total security strength meter 15 points
9. Firewall Rules = Total security strength meter 135 points
   1. Firewall Advanced Settings
10. Brute Force = Total security strength meter 102 points
    1. Captcha Settings
    2. AIOWPS And WooCommerce Captcha Settings
11. Spam Prevention = Total security strength meter 30 points + 10 more points when BuddyPress and bbPress is installed and activated.
    
12. Scanner = Total security strength meter 20 points
13. Maintenance
14. Miscellaneous
15. Two Factor Auth Settings
16. Delete Spam
17. Pingback Protection Settings
18. Custom Rules
19. Allow Unlock Request
20. How To Reset AIOWPS Plugin
    1. Remove All In One WP Security Database Tables
21. Test New Users Registration AIOWPS
22. Troubleshooting
23. FAQ

Multisite Functionality

• securing WordPress multisite with AIOWPS plugin

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I hope the above information helps you to protect your website.

If you have any questions or need some help, you can leave a message or get in contact with me via my contact form above.

Enjoy.