Q: What's the difference between your tool and Clearfy?
Irina_Squirrly
May 15, 2024A: Hey, Sumo-ling! Thank you so much for your interest in Hide My WP Ghost.
After doing a quick research, I saw that there are several features that Hide My WP Ghost and clearfy both offer like: enabling you to hide the login page and giving you the ability to hide your wordpress footprint (not exactly sure HOW clearfy does this, as I haven't got the chance to test it).
Another thing that I noticed is that the tool you mentioned has a lot of coming soon features that Hide My WP Ghost already offers, like:
- set a limit of login attempts
- block ip address to control upcoming traffic
- security recommendations allowing you to protect your website from attacks.
Hope this helps, but let me know if you have any other questions.
Florin_SquirrlyHi,
It's great to see you again!
I've had a look at the plugin you mentioned and there isn't a lot of overlap between the two plugins.
They have many features for other purposes and it looks like a good and interesting plugin. However, it does so little to Hide WordPress and the common paths that hacker bots use.
The only thing related in their offer is:
"WORDPRESS DEFENSE
Hide Author’s Login — complicates the hacking process. It’s more difficult to find out your login for hacker.
Hide WordPress Login Error Messages — the attacker does not understand what he entered incorrectly, login or password.
Disable XML-RPC — disable pingbacks and trackbacks.
Disable X-Pingback Link — removes the link and the ability to spam with pingbacks."
This is very basic, even if we compare to the 2016 version that we had for Hide My WP Ghost. Also, it's not enough for the purpose of hiding vulnerabilities in WP.
There's a short video where I go over setting up defense for a site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVd56w0ZJeM
^^ I'm using just the basic settings there and you can see that even in the basic mode, Hide My WP Ghost adds very different layers of protection.
Kayla38693
Verified purchaser
If I have clearfy, can I use this with it?
yes! thank you for asking.