CellarWeb Privacy and Security Options

Some general purpose functions for WordPress sites, including some security-related features to block hacking attempts.

There's lots of options that can be selected, grouped into five sections: General Settings changes the 'Howdy' to 'Welcome'. Because we think that 'Howdy' is for an Old West site. Adds the 'referer' to a CF7 form field. Great to figure out where your comments came from. Adds a copyright to the footer. (Right now it's ours, but future versions will allow you to enter your own footer text.) Remove the WP logo from the Admin bar. Sets up a [current_year] shortcode you can use anywhere. Allows use of shortcodes in widgets. Adds a favicon to generated page 'head' section. You supply the favicon file. Adds social sharing buttons centered at the bottom or all posts/pages. PHP Settings Shows the PHP version in use on your site. Links to information about PHP and settings in wp-config.php are shown. No changes to those values are made, since they are host and operating system specific. Blocking AI Scanners Adds directives to the WordPress Virtual robots.txt file to block AI scanners from accessing your site. Does not affect search engine indexing or your SEO. (Since version 4.00.) General Security Settings Disable XMLRPC as a possible hack attack vector. Removes the WP version from the generated page. Disables code editor in all theme/plugins admin screens. Forces disable of all error reporting by plugins or themes. Checks for a user called 'admin' (a common hack attack vector). Disables ability to query by author ID (a common hack attack vector). Login-Related Security Settings Blocks repeated logins with a limit of 4 failed logins. No logins allowed after those 4 fails is delayed for 5 minutes. This reduces the chance of login brute force attacks. Changes failed login message to more generic error (instead of 'bad user' or 'bad password'. Use a custom login page that you provide. Disable the 'Remember Me' checkbox on the login page. Redirect to home page after login/logout. Put login/logout links on menu bars. ChatBot (AI) Scanners Blocking If enabled, adjusts the virtual robots.txt file generated by WordPress to include blocking various AI scanners from using your site content. The default list of AI Scanners is: Default settings are: ` User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-admin/ Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php Sitemap: https://cellarweb.com/development/wp-sitemap.xml