SECURE your WordPress with these plugins: Sit back and watch your website perform.
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Sometimes using WordPress plugins like WordFence and Sucuri can be ideal, but they can only do so much. Or sometimes they are too much for a simple job such as protecting your WordPress login, Password reset, sign-up, and WooCommerce Login and sign-up pages.
In this article, I will share a list of five Free or Freemium WordPress plugins that you can use to secure different types of WordPress websites for free.
Most of the plugins will add a Google Recaptcha to the different WordPress forms, including but not limited to the login, Password reset, and Sign-up pages.
Each plugin's WordPress repository link has been shared below the plugin name to help you find out more details before deciding which one to use.
The plugins are organized at random, not in order of importance or preference. I suggest you check out each and make an informed choice on which WordPress security plugin to use.
5 Plugins to secure WordPress websites and blogs.
1. CAPTCHA 4WP
https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-nocaptcha-recaptcha/
2. WP 2FA
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-2fa/
3. reCAPTCHA for WooCommerce
https://wordpress.org/plugins/recaptcha-woo/
4. Simple Cloudflare Turnstile
https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-cloudflare-turnstile/
5. Advanced Google reCAPTCHA
https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-google-recaptcha/
Conclusion: SECURE your WordPress with these plugins.
In brief, the above recommendations can be used on different types of WordPress sites including News blogs, e-commerce sites, personal websites, and organisation and business WordPress websites.
To choose a plugin to use, you may consider looking at the rating, reviews, publish and update dates, supported versions, features, ease of use, and cost.
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