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SecondGate

Name: SecondGate
Author: SecondGateWP

Passkeys, 2FA, brute-force protection, and country blocking, with real crawlers auto-verified and exempted. No account required, ever.

SecondGate ranks #54,766 among WordPress.org plugins with 1+ active installations, is #2,640 of 4,572 in the Security category, a 5/5 rating from 0 reviews, and was last updated Sep 3, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v1.1.8.1 Current Version v1.1.8.1

Updated 2 weeks ago Last Update on 03 Sep, 2026

Refreshed 12 hours ago Last Refreshed on

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.1.8.1
Last Updated: Sep 03, 2026
Requires WP: 6.0+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 7.2 or higher
Author: SecondGateWP

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about SecondGate

The features listed above are free, permanently, with no artificial limitation. A separate paid product, SecondGate Pro, exists as its own standalone plugin sold independently — it is never required for this plugin to work, and nothing in this plugin is disabled, nagged, or time-limited to push you toward it.

No. Nothing in this plugin requires an account, an API key, or any third-party sign-up.

By default this plugin only trusts your server's real connecting IP address (REMOTE_ADDR), which a visitor cannot forge. If you're behind a proxy or CDN that rewrites the visitor's real IP into a header, you can explicitly enable and select that header in Advanced settings — off by default, since trusting the wrong header by default is a well-documented vulnerability class in software that does IP-based blocking.

No — blocking only affects visitors from blocked sources viewing the site. Real search crawlers (Googlebot, Bingbot, and others) are automatically exempt from every blocking mechanism in this plugin, verified via reverse+forward DNS rather than trusting a user-agent string that anyone could fake — so a country rule that would normally apply is designed not to catch a genuine crawler.

Use one of the backup codes generated when you first set up two-factor authentication, then set up 2FA again on your new device.

No — this plugin covers authentication (passkeys, 2FA, brute-force protection) and geo-blocking. It is not a web application firewall and does not scan for malware.

This has not been tested on Multisite. It's built and tested against standard single-site WordPress installs.