Month: October 2024

WordPress sites are under attack all the time. I have found three free plugins that help me protect my WordPress website. I add a fourth bonus plugin.

The first is “Wordfence Security.” It is an does basic monitoring, blocking, and anti-virus, Firewall and Malware Scan.
https://www.wordfence.com/

Second is “Hide My WP Ghost Lite.” This hides WP CMS, 7G/8G Firewall, Brute Force Protection, 2FA, GEO Security, Temporary Logins, Alerts & more.
https://hidemywpghost.com/.

Third is “IP2Location Country Blocker.” Block visitors from accessing your website or admin area by their country.
https://www.ip2location.com/

Fourth, is “JetPack.” In setting under the Security tab I enable Firewall and Brute force protection. I use the plugin for other reasons, so it is not essential for security.
https://jetpack.com/

Google search has gotten worse over the years. You are not imagining it, it’s true. So I have decided to switch to Brave Search.

But, since I am switching, I thought I would give the Brave Browser a spin. And I thought, maybe others would be interested as well. So here is how to install it on Linux Mint. Directions for other distros is provided on their page.

Debian, Ubuntu, Mint 

Copy and paste these lines in the terminal, one by one, hitting enter each time. Enter your password, do the next line. After you are done, you will find it in your Menu under Internet.

sudo apt install curl

sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install brave-browser

To add Brave Search to Google Chrome:

https://search.brave.com/default