Wordpress Security Protection Firewall Recommended Settings

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whats the layout for free users

I believe entering one by one, limited by 10 at Free plan - using Firewall Rules seems to be the better and the right way so far:

What User Agents to block?

I used to have 10 UA block rules, all taken from my own server logs as UAs used by malicious bots at some point. But after I adopted a few Firewall Rules based on behavior, rather then IP or UA, I have a better protection (based on the number of hits being blocked) and my UA block list became unnecessary. I started by adapting the recipe in this list, which is for WordPress websites but may as well be used by any site. The hackers don’t know you are not using WP until the see the result of the…