WP Hide & Security Enhancer for WordPress

Being the best content management system, widely used, WordPress is susceptible to a large range of hacking attacks including brute-force, SQL injections, XSS, XSRF etc. Despite the fact the WordPress core is a very secure code maintained by a team of professional enthusiast, the additional plugins and themes make ita vulnerable spot for every website. In many cases, those are created by pseudo-developers who do not follow the best coding practices or simply do not own the experience to create a secure plugin.

Statistics reveal that every day new vulnerabilities are discovered, many affecting hundreds of thousands of WordPress websites.

Over 99,9% of hacked WordPress websites are target of automated malware scripts, which search for certain WordPress fingerprints. This plugin hides or replaces those traces, making the hacking bots attacks useless.

It works well with custom WordPress directory structures,e.g. custom plugins, themes, and upload folders.

Once configured, you need to clear server cache data and/or any cache plugins (e.g. W3 Cache), for a new html data to be created. If you use CDN this should be cache clear as well.

Sample usage

Main plugin functionality:

Customizes Admin URL

Blocks default admin URL

Blocks any direct folder access to completely hide the structure

Customize wp-login.php filename

2FA – Two-factor Authentication

2FA – Two-factor Authentication – Email Verification Code

2FA – Two-factor Authentication – Authenticator App

2FA – Two-factor Authentication – Recovery Codes

2FA – Two-factor Authentication – Shortcode for front-side user settings interface

2FA – Two-factor Authentication – My Account > Account Details – area for 2FA user settings interface

Google Captcha

Blocks default wp-login.php

Blocks default wp-signup.php

Blocks XML-RPC API

Creates New XML-RPC paths

Adjusts theme URL

Creates New child Theme URL

Changes theme style file name

Cleans any headers for theme style file

Customizes wp-include

Blocks default wp-include paths

Blocks default wp-content

Customizes plugins URL

Changes Individual plugin URL

Blocks default plugins paths

Creates New upload URL

Blocks default upload URL

Removes WordPress version

Blocks Meta Generator

Disables the emoji and required javascript code

Removes pingback tag

Removes wlwmanifest Meta

Removes rsd_link Meta

Removes wpemoji

Minifies Html, Css, JavaScript

Security Headers

and many more.

No other plugin functionality will be blocked or interfered in any way by WP-Hide

This plugin allows to change the default Admin URL from wp-login.php and wp-admin to something else. All original links turn the default theme to “404 Not Found” page, as if nothing exists there. Besides the huge security advantage, the WP-Hide plugin saves lots of server processing time by reducing php code and MySQL usage since brute-force attacks target the weakURL.

Important: Compared to all other similar plugins which mainly use redirects, this plugin turns a default theme to“404 error” page for all blocked URL functionalities, without revealing the link existence at all.

Since version 1.2, WP-Hide change individual plugin URLs and made them unrecognizable. For example,the change of the default WooCommerce plugin URL and its dependencies from domain.com/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/ into domain.com/ecommerce/cdn/ or anything customized.

Plugin Sections **Hide -> Scan

Exhaustive system security examination with analysis and improvements guidance and fixes

Hide -> Rewrite > Theme

New Theme Path – Changes default theme path

New Style File Path – Changes default style file name and path

Remove description header from Style file – Replaces any WordPress metadata information (like theme name, version etc.,) from style file

Child – New Theme Path – Changes default child theme path

Child – New Style File Path – Changes child theme style-sheet file path and name

Child – Remove description header from Style file – Replaces any WordPress metadata information (like theme name, version etc.,) from style file

Hide -> Rewrite > WP includes

New Include Path – Changes default wp-include path/URL

Block wp-include URL – Blocks default wp-include URL

Hide -> Rewrite > WP content

New Content Path – Change default wp-content path/URL

Block wp-content URL – Blocks the default content URL

Hide -> Rewrite > Plugins

New Plugin Path – Changes default wp-content/plugins path/URL

Block plugin URL – Blocks default wp-content/plugins URL

New path / URL for Every Active Plugin

Customize path and name for any active plugins

Hide -> Rewrite > Uploads

New Upload Path – Changes default media files path/URL

Block upload URL – Blocks default media files URL

Hide -> Rewrite > Comments

New wp-comments-post.php Path

Block wp-comments-post.php

Hide -> Rewrite > Author

New Author Path

Prevent Access to Author Archives

Block default path

Hide -> Rewrite > Search

New Search Path

Block default path

Hide -> Rewrite > XML-RPC

New XML-RPC Path – Changes default XML-RPC path / URL

Block default xmlrpc.php – Blocks default XML-RPC URL

Disable XML-RPC authentication – Filters whether XML-RPC methods require authentication

Remove pingback – Removes pingback link tag from theme

Hide -> Rewrite > JSON REST

Clean the REST API response

Disable JSON REST V1 service – Disables an API service for WordPress which is active by default

Disable JSON REST V2 service – Disables an API service for WordPress which is active by default

Block any JSON REST calls – Any call for JSON REST API service will be blocked

Disable output the REST API link tag into page header

Disable JSON REST WP RSD endpoint from XML-RPC responses

Disable Sends a Link header for the REST API

Hide -> Rewrite > Root Files

Block license.txt – Blocks access to license.txt root file

Block readme.html – Blocks access to readme.html root file

Block wp-activate.php – Blocks access to wp-activate.php file

Block wp-cron.php – Blocks outside access to wp-cron.php file

Block wp-signup.php – Blocks default wp-signup.php file

Block other wp-*.php files – Blocks other wp-.php files within WordPress Root

Hide -> Rewrite > URL Slash

URL’s add Slash – Add a slash to any links without it. This disguisesthe existence of a file, folder or a wrong URL, which will all be slashed.

Hide -> General / Html > Core

Disabling Directory Listing

Hide -> General / Html > Meta

Remove WordPress Generator Meta

Remove Other Generator Meta

Remove Shortlink Meta

Remove DNS Prefetch

Remove Resource Hints

Remove wlwmanifest Meta

Remove feed_links Meta

Disable output the REST API link tag into page header

Remove rsd_link Meta

Remove adjacent_posts_rel Meta

Remove profile link

Remove canonical link

Hide -> General / Block Detectors

Block Detectors

Hide -> General / Emulate CMS

Emulate CMS

Hide -> General / Html > Admin Bar

Remove WordPress Admin Bar for specified urser roles

Hide -> General / Feed

Remove feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom links

Hide -> General / Robots.txt

Disable admin URL within Robots.txt

Hide -> General / Html > Emoji

Disable Emoji

Disable TinyMC Emoji

Hide -> General / Html > Styles

Remove Version

Remove ID from link tags

Hide -> General / Html > Scripts

Remove Version

Hide -> General / Html > Oembed

Remove Oembed

Hide -> General / Html > Headers

Remove Link Header

Remove X-Powered-By Header

Remove Server Header

Remove X-Pingback Header

Hide -> General / Html > HTML

Remove HTML Comments

Minify Html, CSS, JavaScript

Remove general classes from body tag

Remove ID from Menu items

Remove class from Menu items

Remove general classes from post

Remove general classes from images

Hide -> General / Html > User Interactions

Disable Mouse right click

Disable Text Selection

Disable Copy

Disable Cut

Disable Paste

Disable Print

Disable Print Screen

Disable Developer Tools

Disable View Source

Disable Drag / Drop

Hide -> Admin > wp-login.php

New wp-login.php – Maps a new wp-login.php instead of the default one

Block default wp-login.php – Blocks default wp-login.php file from being accessible

Customize the default login page Logo image

Hide -> Admin > Admin URL

New Admin URL – Creates a new admin URL instead of the default ”/wp-admin”. This also applies for admin-ajax.php calls

Disable customized Admin Url redirect to the Login page

Block default Admin Url – Blocks default admin URL and files from being accessible

Security -> 2FA

Enable 2FA

Enable the 2FA for specific roles

Enforce User to Configure 2FA

Primary option for Two-Factor

Disable 2FA when using Temporary Login

Security -> 2FA Email

Activate 2FA Email

Security -> 2FA Auth App

Activate Authenticator app (TOTP)

Security -> 2FA Recovery Codes

Activate 2FA Recovery Codes

Security -> Captcha

Google Captcha V2

Google Captcha V3

CloudFlare Turnstile ( PRO )

Settings -> CDN

CDN Url – Sets-up CDN if applied. Some providers replace site assets with custom URLs.

Security -> Headers

HTTP Response Headers are a powerful tool to Harden Your Website Security.

* Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy (COEP)

* Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy (COOP)

* Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy (CORP)

* Referrer-Policy

* X-Content-Type-Options

* X-Download-Options

* X-Frame-Options (XFO)

* X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies

* X-XSS-Protection

This free version works with Apache and IIS server types. For all server types, check with WP Hide PRO

This is a basic version that can hide everything for basic sites, example https://demo.wp-hide.com/. When using complex plugins and themes, the WP Hide PRO may be required. We provide free assistance to hide everything on your site, along with the commercial product.

Anything wrong with this plugin on your site? Just use the forum or get in touch with us at Contact and we’ll check it out.

A website example can be found at https://demo.wp-hide.com/ or our website WP Hide and Security Enhancer

Plugin homepage at WordPress Hide and Security Enhancer

This plugin is developed by Nsp-Code

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