WTB Firewall is a lightweight but powerful WordPress firewall plugin designed to help you protect your site from unwanted visitors, brute-force attacks and malicious traffic.
The plugin allows you to define clear access rules, automatically block suspicious behaviour, and correctly detect real visitor IP addresses even when your site is behind a proxy or CDN.
Core Features
- Manual IP allow and block rules
- Country-based access control
- Automatic blocking after repeated authentication failures
- Built-in rate limiting to protect your site from excessive requests and abuse
- 404 monitoring to detect and block traffic generating repeated missing-page errors
- Proxy support with trusted header detection
- Lightweight design with minimal performance impact
- Clean WordPress-native admin interface
Why use WTB Firewall?
Many WordPress security plugins include dozens of features that add complexity and overhead. WTB Firewall focuses on essential firewall functionality so you can:
- Stop brute-force login attempts
- Restrict access from unwanted regions
- Block abusive visitors quickly
- Ensure accurate IP detection behind proxies or CDNs
- Keep your site fast while improving security
Designed for Performance
WTB Firewall is built with performance and reliability in mind. Rules are processed efficiently, unnecessary background tasks are avoided, and the plugin integrates cleanly with WordPress without slowing down your site.
