WordPress Security How To
Instructions and guidelines on how to protect your website effectively
WordPress notifications and alerts made easy
Once you have created an alert for a specific activity, you will receive a notification email or an optional mobile notification for each event. You can create as many alerts as you need. Creating alerts for specific events is easy. You can do this by going to the Activity tab, filtering the log for the activity you wish to [...]
How to change date format on Activity page
The plugin has a special setting – Date format. It allows you to specify what format to use to display dates and time on admin pages: Activity log, Traffic Inspector and in notification emails. The setting is located in the Preferences section on the Main settings admin page. If the Date format setting field is empty, the date and [...]
How to stop bots and robots with a list of prohibited logins
As you already know, there is a small but powerful feature 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 [...]
How to set up reCAPTCHA
What is reCAPTCHA and how does it work? reCAPTCHA is a human verification mechanism that provides a free anti-spam service. It can be used along with the WP Cerber anti-spam engine. When reCAPTCHA is configured for a form on your website, a couple of JavaScript scripts are loaded from Google’s servers every time the web [...]