Banhammer Pro: Monitor & Protect Your WordPress Sites To Keep The Bad Boys Out

Earlier this year, Jeff Starr of Plugin Planet released his third WordPress security plugin into the wild. Meet Banhammer Pro which allows to “protect your sites against enemy hordes”.

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Banhammer Pro

Banhammer Pro is a lightweight WordPress security plugin that allows you to monitor your site traffic and track suspicious visits in the so-called Armory while being easy on resources. You can protect your WordPress sites against potential threats by banning unwanted visitors including users or bots with a simple click of a button. The plugin features whitelisting, bot detection, and editable targets.

If needed you can drop the banhammer on targets and lock them in the Tower. There, you can manage, view details, leave notes, and restore site access to banned targets.

Features

Monitor site traffic via AJAX-powered UI
Warn, Ban, Restore, or Whitelist targets (users or bots)
Target by IP, user agent, user, request, or referrer
Custom banned messages, response codes & email alerts
Enable protection of the login page & admin area
Monitor site traffic in the Armory

Useful tools such as jump, sort, search
Enable/disable logging with a click of a button
View advanced data like POST & FILES
Automatically clear logged data

Manage banned and warned targets in the Tower

Whitelist, restore, warn or ban targets
Edit/customize targets for greater control
Custom ban message & private notes

Optional redirect for banned targets
Smart bot detection
Self-ban safety net
Sound effects for Ban & Warn buttons
Detailed inline documentation
Lightweight, fast & easy to use

Banhammer Pro has been built the WP API by a WordPress (security) expert. As such, it works just fine with all WordPress themes and third-party experts.

Pricing, Support & Updates

Banhammer Pro comes with a very competitive price tag. Pricing starts from a one-time fee from as low as $25 for a single site and up to $200 for unlimited sites. All licenses come with lifetime updates and (premium) support including a detailed documentation, tutorials, forums and support via email.

Plugin Planet are also offering a free version which comes with limited features and less control options.

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More Security Plugins

Do you want to tighten up the security of your WordPress site even further? Check out BBQ Pro, a firewall security plugin. Also, you might be interested in Blackhole Pro, a security plugin that detects and traps bad bots.