WP AbuseShield is a WordPress plugin that helps protect your valuable website against many types of abuse on the Internet.
The idea is very simple. The plugin checks the IP address of the new user in the AbuseIPDB via the API and checks if it has been reported in the last seven days. If IP is reported to AbuseIPDB, access is denied, otherwise access is granted.
- Protects against malicious bots
- Ability to verify the domain to increase the queries limits for AbuseIPDB
- Works well with CloudFlare
- Plugin has a cache to save limited queries to AbuseIPDB and improve performance
- Works without JavaScript
- Install th plugin
- Register an account on AbuseIPDB as a webmaster
- Copy your API key to the plugin configuration panel
- (Optional) Copy your Domain Verification Code (from meta tag) to the plugin configuration panel
- That's all!
Feel free to open issues. Remember to describe your problem accurately!