Top Plugins to Optimize and Secure WordPress

Speed Up and Secure

1. WordFence
   Enable firewall, periodic scans, failed login block, secure passwords.
2. WP Super Cache
   Speed up delivery of static content and pages: configure it for visitors to prevent overload by bots/crawlers.
3. Use Google Libraries
   Load JS from CDN. Reduce load.
4. WPS Hide Login
   Protect from brute login.
5. Robots.txt File
   Edit the robots.txt file.
6. Really Simple SSL
   Redirects pages to HTTPS (SSL required).
7. Easy WP SMTP
   Use an account to send emails with necessary verifications to reduce spam filtering and lost emails.

Troubleshooting Tools

1. P3 Plugin Performance Profiler
2. Server IP & Memory Usage Display

Configuration

• robots.txt
  

  User-agent: *
  Crawl-delay: 90
  Disallow: /wp-admin/
  Disallow: /wp-includes/
  Disallow: /streams/
  Disallow: /wp-login.php
  Disallow: /wp*

  User-agent: MJ12bot
  Disallow: /

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