About this plugin
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🔥 Install, activate, and done!
🔥 Powerful protection from WP’s fastest firewall plugin.
BBQ Firewall is a lightweight, blazing-fast firewall plugin that protects your site against a wide range of threats. BBQ checks all incoming traffic and quietly blocks bad requests containing nasty stuff like eval(, base64_, and excessively long request-strings. htaccess firewall.
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🔥 Adds a strong firewall to ANY WordPress site
🔥 Works with all WordPress plugins and themes
Powerful Protection
BBQ protects your site against many threats:
- SQL injection attacks
- Executable file uploads
- Directory traversal attacks
- Unsafe character requests
- Excessively long requests
- PHP remote/file execution
- XSS, XXE, and related attacks
- Protects against bad bots
- Protects against bad referrers
- Protects against bad POST content
- Protects against many other bad requests
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🔥 Works great with Blackhole for Bad Bots and Banhammer
Awesome Features
BBQ provides all the best firewall features:
- Rated 5 stars at WordPress.org
- 100% plug-&-play, zero configuration
- 100% focused on security and performance
- Blocks a wide range of malicious URL requests
- Fastest Web Application Firewall (WAF) for WordPress
- Based on the 7G / 8G Firewall
- Scans all incoming traffic and blocks bad requests
- Scans all types of requests: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.
- Protects against known bad bots and referrers
- Works silently behind the scenes to protect your site
- Hassle-free security plugin that’s easy to use
- Thoroughly tested, error-free performance
- Extremely low rate of false positives
- Compatible with other security plugins
- Regularly updated and “future proof”
- Firewall < 10 kilobytes in size
- Lightweight, fast and flexible
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🔥 For advanced protection and features, check out BBQ Pro »
Exclusive Pro Features
- Customize firewall via plugin settings
- Easily add or remove firewall patterns
- Easily add Jeff Starr’s AI Block List
- Send Email Alerts for blocked requests
- Quickly enable/disable firewall rules
- Disable firewall for logged-in users
- Block excessively long URI requests
- Protect against XML-RPC exploits
- Block any individual IP address
- Block entire ranges of IP addresses
- Protect against user-ID phishing
- Redirect all blocked requests
- Display a custom “blocked” message
- Set your own response status code
- Complete inline documentation
- Statistics for blocked requests
- Tools to reset options and patterns
- Import and Export firewall patterns
- One-click pattern testing
- Whitelist IP addresses
plus everything the free version can do and more.
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🔥 Learn more and get BBQ Pro »
Privacy
This plugin does not collect or store any user data. It does not set any cookies, and it does not connect to any third-party locations. Thus, this plugin does not affect user privacy in any way.
BBQ Firewall is developed and maintained by Jeff Starr, 15-year WordPress developer and book author.
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🔥 BBQ = Block Bad Queries
Support development
I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can make a donation or purchase one of my books:
- The Tao of WordPress
- Digging into WordPress
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- WordPress Themes In Depth
- Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WordPress
And/or purchase one of my premium WordPress plugins:
- BBQ Pro – Blazing fast WordPress firewall
- Blackhole Pro – Automatically block bad bots
- Banhammer Pro – Monitor traffic and ban the bad guys
- GA Google Analytics Pro – Connect WordPress to Google Analytics
- Head Meta Pro – Ultimate Meta Tags for WordPress
- REST Pro Tools – Awesome tools for managing the WP REST API
- Simple Ajax Chat Pro – Unlimited chat rooms
- USP Pro – Unlimited front-end forms
Links, tweets and likes also appreciated. Thank you! 🙂