Category: Security

Block ClaudeBot on WordPress to opt out of Anthropic training: add it to robots.txt, enforce it at the rewrite layer, and keep Claude-SearchBot if you want.

Block GPTBot on WordPress to opt out of OpenAI training: add it to robots.txt, enforce at the rewrite layer, and decide OAI-SearchBot separately. 2026 guide.

Stop brute force attacks on WordPress: reconfigure the login endpoint and close XML-RPC and REST so probes return 404 before the auth form loads.

Protect wp-config.php in WordPress: move it above the web root, deny direct access, set 600 permissions, rotate keys, and return 404 to probes. 2026 guide.

WordPress path security changes default login, admin, and file paths so automated probes return 404 before PHP runs. What it is, how to do it, 2026 data.

This guide is for developers, sysadmins, and agency owners who already run a security plugin, still see thousands of attack attempts in their logs, and suspect the problem is the model rather than the plugin. TL;DR. Attack Surface Reduction (ASR) is the practice of removing or changing every exposed, predictable entry point on a WordPress […]

Prevention-first WordPress security: reduce attack surface, change login paths, reject probes at the rewrite layer. 2026 data + how it beats scan-and-clean.

Attackers don’t choose your site. Their scanner does, and it chooses on a fingerprint your site hands over for free. Automated and AI-assisted scanning runs as a two-step pipeline: first classify the target (what CMS, what version, which plugins, which of them are vulnerable), then route the matching exploit. Almost every security tool people install […]

Exploits hit hours after disclosure but most sites patch weekly. How a request-filtering layer and path reconfiguration protect WordPress before you update.

Rotating-IP brute force beats rate limiting and a renamed login gets hit via XML-RPC. Both are the same problem: the defense keys on the wrong layer.