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
WP Cerber Security allows you to restrict or completely block access to WordPress REST API which is enabled by default. To enable protection go to the Hardening tab and enable Block access to the WordPress REST API except any of the following. If you use Contact Form 7, Jetpack or another plugin that make use of REST API, you [...]
How to stop spam user registrations on your WordPress
Enable an antispam engine for the registration form The fastest way to stop spammers is to enable the 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 Cerber Security Scanner Settings Security Blog Manage multiple WP Cerber [...]
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 [...]