Overall, Wordfence is a life-saver that prevents all unauthorized accesses and potential threats and keep your website safe.

I'm developing websites using Wordpress for the past 14 years. Since the past couple of years, hack attempts have increased by many folds. Wordfence has been installed on dozens of my websites and it always has been a life-safe. Specially with the in-built firewall rules, Wordfence ensures that unauthorized access to your site is completed blocked. With more blacklisting and whitelisting options - it gives more control over to who can access and who cannot. The premium version has a powerful Web Application Firewall (WAF) that acts as the frontline of the website that blocks potential threats that comes to your website.

The software can further improve. Particularly, a little bit more features added to it would make the plugin more irreplaceable. For example, file management security, database management security, more bruteforce relation hardening options (custom wp login url etc.) etc. can be added to increase more security.

I recommend it since it offers peace of mind knowing the site has at least some protection. Even if it is the free version, I feel much better having it on there doing its thing.

I love how the free version offers enough protection for simple sites. I like having the login alerts notify me when others log in to the site. The feature to add usernames to a blacklist that will automatically lock out the user when entered at login is great too. Another great feature is the Wordfence Central feature, which lets you connect your account to Wordfence, it will list all of your connected sites in a central dashboard on their site to make managing all of your sites so easy and fast. That is my favorite feature.

I don't like how it has a notification icon next to the name in the dashboard menu for useless notifications. Especially when it is a notification for the ToS documents that appear every couple of weeks. That is really annoying to me but I'm the type of person that doesn't like extra notifications cluttering up my dashboard.

It was okay but I had some conflicts with the plugin and my hosting service.

It offers some good features for site security. I liked that it allowed you to customize your security settings even with the free plugin. You can also have login notices emailed to you as well.

I found the software dashboard to be a bit confusing. I also had an issue with scans. It seemed to be too heavy for my hosting service to handle.

Generally, I would highly recommend the product. For organisations that hold higher risk, you may want to ensure someone is fully trained on all the features, but for small organisations with limited capacity, its a great solution that makes your life much easier.

Once installed, the software is very easy to use and monitor. It gives you peace of mind that your website is protected from external attacks and the alerts will always notify you if something unusual is taking place. If you need to interrogate traffic further it is simple to do so and it is possible to add rules to create an extra security level which has helped us prevent bot attacks through our donation/payment system.

Sometimes I struggle to locate the pages I am looking for when interrogating IP addresses and monitoring traffic to the site. This is maybe because I only have to use the software occasionally because the standard security it provides is sufficient for our charity website.

I am very happy with Wordfence, and many developers who make website from small sole traders and businesses use the Free Plan and have no complaints. You need to set it up from a check sheet from someone reputable so you have the best security.

It had a very generous free tier which is important for a small business There was a lot of features that to be honest were worth paying for. I started to watch the weekly Video Call and I learnt a lot about security from those calls. I also did get the quiz right one week and I won some nice SWAG as it is referred to in the call I could switch off functions based on conflicts and general advice If there is a Critical Threath they will let you know even if you are on the free plan

I had to wait 4 weeks before learning about any major threats as I was not a paid member There was talk about it bloating my wordpress site, but to be honest I could not prove that. I upgraded by Hosting and Caching plugins and it was nothing to be worried about. There is a learning curve and I did rely on online help is setting up the configuration initially, and I was unsure if that advice was credible. But it worked well for me.