Our WordPress Plugins

Although we prefer to hand code our websites that is certainly not because we don't know about WordPress, it's because we know so much. And we share our expertise through our security plugins.

Security of your website is our priority so we build and share simple WordPress Security Plugins.

Not only do we build our own plugins, which protect our WordPress sites, but we share them and we work on a different approach to most people. Rather than 1 huge fits all sizes plugin we prefer highly targetted, very specific, lightweight tools that do exactly what they promise.

You wouldn't use the same type of lock throughout your home to secure everything - your front door, windows, bike and shed. Each has a lock designed for the implementation that has no extra bloat and does what you want it to do. And that' our methodology for our plugins - minimum weight, maximum punch.

Janric Simple Hardening

Janric Simple Hardening is a lightweight plugin to disable XML-RPC, restrict the REST API, and hide the WordPress version.

If that description makes no sense to you that's not a surprise, but in short this plugin removes from WordPress tools that most sites do not need but allow hackers to perform bulk login attacks on websites. You might think you have the login form protected, but without this plugin the hacker knows that they can bypass the login form and submit hundreds of login attempts together.

This plugin also hides from hackers a surprising list of users allowed into your admin. If a hacker is trying to guess your credentials and you have not hidden this list then you are telling them half of the information!

Lastly it is absolutely VITAL that you do not give away any queues to hackers that they can use so this hardens your site by removing the version number. Without it the version number is displayed in the code of every page and with a simple lookup a potential hacker can see what vulnerabilities are in the version of WordPress you are using. This can be a huge problem if you are not updated, even by a small version.

Janric Simple MFA

Janric Simple MFA is a lightweight email-based multi-factor authentication for the WordPress login page, with "Trust this machine" support.

Once you have funneled all login attempts to where you want them now you tighten that form. With this plugin every successful login attempt sends you an email with an authentication code. You need to enter this code to login, and can 'trust' this machine to prevent this step in future. The benefit - even if a hacker discovers your email through a breach or phishing the MFA is going to stop them from getting in.

Because email can be unreliable, within the options you need to setup your personal email server details. Please check these with your hosts before activating the plugin and if you have any problems, simply deleting the plugin allows you back in whilst your sort the server details.

Janric Simple Last Login Info

Janric Simple Last Login is a lightweight plugin to show your loast login details.

A simple reassurance when you login that you might have seen on your banking sites. This plugin simply adds to your dashboard a nore of when you last succesfully, and unsucessfully, logged in to your admin.

My advice, they are all free so download and install now. But at the very least the top 2 are essential and without them your site is at huge risk.