Apocalypse Meow vs TrustedSite

Apocalypse Meow’s main focus is addressing WordPress security issues related to user accounts and logins. This includes things like: Brute-force login-in protection; Customizable password strength requirements; XML-RPC access controls; Account access alerts; Searchable access logs (including failed login attempts and temporary bans); User enumeration prevention; Registration SPAM protection; Miscellaneous Core and template options to make targeted hacks more difficult; Anonymize/scrub leaky remote request headers; Security is an admittedly technical subject, but Apocalypse Meow strives to help educate “normal” users about the nature of common web attacks, mitigation techniques, etc. Every option contains detailed explanations and links to external resources with additional information. Knowledge is power! Requirements Due to the advanced nature of some of the plugin features, there are a few additional server requirements beyond what WordPress itself requires: WordPress 4.4+. PHP 7.4 or later. PHP extensions: (bcmath or gmp), date, filter, json, pcre. CREATE and DROP MySQL grants. Single-site Installs (i.e. Multi-Site is not supported). Please note: it is not safe to run WordPress atop a version of PHP that has reached its End of Life. Future releases of this plugin might, out of necessity, drop support for old, unmaintained versions of PHP. To ensure you continue to receive plugin updates, bug fixes, and new features, just make sure PHP is kept up-to-date. 🙂 Log Monitoring Some robots are so dumb they’ll continue trying to submit credentials even after the login form is replaced, wasting system resources and clogging up the log-in history table. One way to mitigate this is to use a server-side log-monitoring program like Fail2Ban or OSSEC to ban users via the firewall. Apocalypse Meow produces a 403 error when a banned user requests the login form. Your log-monitoring rule should therefore look for repeated 403 responses to wp-login.php. Additionally, some robots are unable to follow redirects; if your login form requires SSL, you should also ban repeated 301/302 responses to catch those fools. If you have enabled user enumeration protection with the die() option, requests for ?author=X will produce a 400 response code which can be similarly tracked. Privacy Policy When active, this plugin retains security logs of every sign-in attempt made to the CMS backend. This information — including the end user’s public IP address, username, and the status of his or her attempt — is used to help prevent unauthorized system access and maintain Quality of Service for all site visitors. This information resides fully on the hosting web site and is not shared with any third parties. Data retention is entirely up to the site operator, but by default old records are automatically removed after 90 days. Please note: Apocalypse Meow DOES NOT integrate with any WordPress GDPR “Personal Data” features. (Selective erasure of audit logs would undermine the security mechanisms provided by this plugin. Haha.)

Key benefits Show you’re trustworthy: Earn certifications to display TrustedSite trustmarks and let visitors know your site is one they can trust. Ease concerns: TrustedSite’s system of trustmarks and certifications is designed to alleviate the biggest concerns online shoppers have. Get more sales: Sites that have tested TrustedSite Certification have seen 2-30% more sales. Sell more with trust 92% of consumers have concerns when shopping at unfamiliar websites. Address the concerns that cost you sales and increase conversions at every stage of the buyer’s journey with TrustedSite Certification. How it works TrustedSite offers a suite of certifications that help to alleviate the most common concerns that people have when they shop online. Earn these certifications to display TrustedSite trustmarks throughout your site and show visitors that they can trust your business. Once you’ve installed the TrustedSite plugin, we’ll check your site for security issues and verify key contact information so we know your site is secure and your business is legitimate. Once you’ve passed our security scan and verified your contact information, you’ll earn your first two certifications: Certified Secure and Verified Business. With the TrustedSite free plan, you can then begin displaying the TrustedSite floating trustmark for up to 500 visits per month at no charge. When your visitors click on the trustmark, we’ll show them an on-site modal (available in 31 different languages). The modal displays a list of the certifications that you’ve earned and explains how you earned them—helping your visitors to continue shopping with confidence. Get Certification Pro Upgrade to increase your visit limit and get access to all of our certifications and trustmarks to increase sales: Issue-Free Orders: Show your business consistently delivers outstanding service with customer testimonials. Shopper Identity Protection: Protect customers for 90 days after their purchases with $100,000 identity theft protection. Trusted Reviews: Display the great reviews you’ve collected with ResellerRatings or Trustpilot. Data Protection: Show visitors that your login and checkout pages are secure. Spam-Free: Collect more emails by showing you don’t spam. More sales. Guaranteed. When A/B testing TrustedSite, top ecommerce sites have seen a significant increase in sales. carcovers.com: 3.2% increase over Norton Shopping Guarantee lensabl.com: 2.46% increase holabirdsports.com: 16% increase mountainhouse.com: 26.9% increase We offer a 30-day money back guarantee with all of our paid plans. If you don’t see an increase in conversions, we’ll give you your money back. Privacy TrustedSite uses Amazon Web Services as a CDN. TrustedSite is GDPR compliant and complies with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. View our full terms and privacy policy.