WordPress Security How To
WordPress security recipes and brief instructions how to protect your website with Cerber Security & Antispam plugin
Restrict access to WordPress REST API
The Cerber Security plugin allows you to restrict or completely block access to the WordPress REST API. To enable protection go to the Hardening tab on the plugin admin page and enable Block access to the WordPress REST API. If you use Contact Form 7, Jetpack or any other plugin that make use of REST API and force you to use [...]
How to stop spam user registrations on your WordPress
Enable antispam engine for the registration form The fastest way to stop spammers is to enable a Cerber antispam engine for the WordPress registration form. To enable protection: Go to the Antispam plugin admin page Enable Protect registration form with bot detection engine in the Cerber antispam engine section If you have a [...]
Traffic Inspector and logging how to
Quick recipes for Cerber Security Traffic Inspector. How to disable traffic logging To completely turn off the logging: go to the Traffic Inspector page, click the Settings tab and set Logging mode to Logging disabled. How to disable Traffic Inspector To completely turn off the inspection go to the Traffic Inspector Settings [...]
Instant mobile and browser notifications with Pushbullet
WP Cerber allows you to easily enable desktop and mobile notifications and get all those notifications from your WordPress instantly and for free. In a desktop browser, you will get popup messages even if you logged out of your WordPress. Security Blog Traffic Inspector in a nutshell Security Blog Get WordPress protected: [...]
WordPress notifications made easy
Yes, you heard it right. Subscriptions to events work like a subscription to a newsletter or following someone on Facebook. Once you have subscribed to a specific activity you will get a notification letter by email and a push notification with each event. You can create as many subscriptions as you need. You can easily [...]
How to catch bots and robots with a list of prohibited logins
As you already know, there is a small, but useful feature that called a list of prohibited logins/usernames. This is a comma-separated list of usernames you do not want to be used on your website in any circumstances. That’s it? Nope, there is no “just in case” features in the WP Cerber Security plugin. But [...]
How to set up reCAPTCHA
What is reCAPTCHA and how does it work? reCAPTCHA is a human verification mechanism which created and maintained by Google as a free anti-spam service. When you enable reCAPTCHA for a form on your website, a couple of JavaScript scripts will be loaded from Google’s servers every time a web page with the form is being [...]