SAR One Click Security for WordPress

There’s a lot of WordPress security plugins with many many options and pages to setup. And that is fine if you know what to do.

But most of the times, you don’t need so much or simply you’re not sure about what to set or not.

This plugin adds some extra security to your WordPress with only one click. No options page, just activate it!

Features Like many other security plugins SAR One Click Security adds well known .htaccess rules, but only the ones probed to be safe to use in almost any type of site (including WooCommerce stores), to protect your WordPress from common attacks. This allows you to have a safer WordPress without worries about what protection you should be using.

Turn off ServerSignature directive, that may leak information about your web server.

Turn off directory listing, avoiding bad configured hostings to leak your files.

Blocks public access (from web) to following files that may leak information about your WordPress install: .htaccess, license.txt, readme.html, wp-config.php, wp-config-sample.php, install.php

Blocks access to wp-login.php to dummy bots trying to register in WordPress sites that have registration disabled.

Blocks requests looking for timthumb.php, reducing server load caused by bots trying to find it. (*)

Blocks TRACE and TRACK request methods, preventing XST attacks.

Blocks direct posting to wp-comments-post.php (most spammers do this) and access with blank User Agent, reducing spam comments a lot and also server load.

Blocks direct access to PHP files in wp-content directory (this includes subdirectories like plugins or themes). Protecting you from a huge number of 0day exploits.