SSM has officially taken over the support, stewardship and operational aspects of one of the leading security plugins for Wordpress today.
"As part of our community outreach program, we decided to work with Frank to transition the plugin to our development team. With over 150,000 downloads since he started it, we felt that this would make a significant addition to our service repertoire", stated SiteSecurityMonitor.com founder Jason Remillard.
"SSM is a leader in the web security space, and I've known Jason and his team for a while now. I feel comfortable that SSM will continue to develop the plugin and provide great customer support for it", added the original developer of the Secure Wordpress plugin - Frank Bueltge.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Product
management details are still being worked out, primarily if this plugin code base will be merged with the original SSM plugin: WP Secure.
"Two things are certain in this deal: One, this plugin with continue to remain free to the community forever. Two, this plugin is an important step in protecting businesses from malware, security injections and other attacks. This product fits perfectly with our corporate mantra", continued Mr. Remillard.
Existing and new customers may download the plugin directly at:http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/secure-wordpress/
How to secure your WordPress installation:
Remove Error information on login page; adds index.html to plugin directory; removes the wp-version, except in admin area.
- removes error-information on login-page
- adds index.php plugin-directory (virtual)
- removes the wp-version, except in admin-area
- removes Really Simple Discovery
- removes Windows Live Writer
- remove core update information for non-admins
- remove plugin-update information for non-admins
- remove theme-update informationfor non-admins (only WP 2.8 and higher)
- hide wp-version in backend-dashboard for non-admins
- Add string for use WP Scanner
- Block bad queries
- Validate your site with a free malware and vulnerabilities scan withSiteSecurityMonitor.com
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