Wordfence
Best WordPress Security Plugins: What We Use on 105+ Sites
The short answer For most WordPress sites, the best security plugin is Wordfence, with Cloudflare in front of the site. Wordfence gives you a firewall, malware scanning and login protection in one plugin. Cloudflare stops bad traffic before it reaches your server. Run one all-in-one security plugin, not two. A plugin is only one layer,…
“Unable to Contact Your Store’s REST API”; When Your Security Plugin Is Blocking Your Payment Processor
A payment gateway reporting invalid WooCommerce REST API credentials, even when they test fine, often means Wordfence is silently blocking the provider’s server. Here’s how to find the block in two minutes and fix it for good.