Wordfence Security Plugin Tutorial 2023 | Step-by-Step Setup

Setup Wordfence Security in this step-by-step tutorial. I'll show you how to secure your WordPress website once and for all. It's actually not that hard! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Start here 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

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⏱️Timestamps⏱️
0:00 intro
0:39 Install WordFence
1:49 First-Time setup
2:28 Firewall setup
8:20 Malware Scan setup
9:40 Tools
11:08 Two-Factor Authentication
14:10 reCaptcha security layer
15:40 All Options setup

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📖Transscript📖
In this video we'll be using Wordfence to completely secure your WordPress website step by step. Let me show you what we'll be covering in this tutorial. I'll show you how to configure all the options in Wordfence. How to force strong passwords for all users. How to set up two-factor authentication, how to use reCaptcha to prevent bot logins. We will configure brute force protection for your website and we will make sure you won't get spammed with email alerts from Wordfence. Let's dive in right now.

Log in to your WordPress dashboard. From here we go to 'Plugins'
we press 'Add new' plugin. We're going to search for the plugin Wordfence over there. And we're looking for this one, by Wordfence. Press 'Install now'. and we press 'Activate'. The first thing we need to do is get a Wordfence license. It's completely free but we still have to register with Wordfence. Click on this button, and then we are at the Wordfence website. Click on this button, get a free license. Then we press I'm okay waiting 30 days. Fill in your email address and then choose if you would like to receive these emails. I would say no, because they're not that interesting. Agree to the terms and press register. And we have received a email from Wordfence with our license. Over here is the license key which you can also click install my license automatically. When you click on the button it will go over here back to your website. Your email address has been filled in and also the license key. Press install license. Well done. Now we click on go to dashboard. And press on this cross icon over here. I will teach you everything about Wordfence in this tutorial. Don't worry we'll be working through all these settings over here and I'll explain everything how it works and what you need to know. So the very first thing we do is we scroll up to here and then we're gonna click on dismiss. Because we're gonna configure this later on. And then Wordfence ask do you want to say it up to date automatically? if you don't update your website regularly I really urge you to press yes enable auto updates. This way the plugin will stay safe and you won't get hacked. So press on yes enable auto updates. Let's walk through all these options step by step. The first thing we do is we go over here to the firewall. Let's press this cross icon over there. Wordfence has a learning mode where it distinguish real visitors from hackers and Bots, but it also learns from your plugins and how your plugins are connected to the outside world. For example if you have a web shop you might be connected to different things like your accountancy and all these things will be passed through the firewall without any problems. So this learning mode is only active for just one week. Now if you run into problems in the future, you can always enable the learning mode again, so that it can learn again from maybe new settings or maybe new plugins or whatever. If we scroll down you can see all bunch of real important information. The most important thing on this page is the blocking over here. If you're logged out of someone who need to visit your website his IP address will show up over here. And then you can unblock an IP address or make it for example permanent. Let's go back to firewall let's configure all the firewall options over here. And if you scroll down we can change all the options one by one. The first thing we need to do is change the protection level from basic WordPress protection to a optimized version. So click on optimize the WordPress firewall and then Wordfence has presented the best...

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[WPressDoctor]

I hope you can secure your website the right way with this tutorial! Let me know if you have any questions or if you got stuck somewhere. Have a great day!

[agthomas]

Thanks Matt! I followed your step by step tutorial and set up wordfence with no issues

[ChorosOne]

This is awesome, you deserve more likes and suscribes. More love

[Imellive]

Very comprehensive one without breaking my login/logout pages! Thanks Matt!

[cryptosamy]

Thank you so much ! Extremely useful, we don't realize how websites can be vulnerable and they can destroy all the work you've done, its crucial to protect it.

[toosharp]

I was looking for the detailed walk-through and this was the best way to do. I would love to see more videos on optimizing or new content with new updates of the plugins. Thanks.

[AvalancheDesignIE]

Matt your videos are extremly helpful. Please keep making them. You make what appears to be overwhelmingly complex really simple to follow.

[EddBSmith]

Thank you man! Really helpful and conscise video, I followed along easily. Great content and thank you for taking the time to explain the options :)

[DanieleManca]

Thanks for this video Matt, I have secured my website with Wordfence as well, although I did not enable 2FA and Recaptcha as I'm the only admin and user of my website.

[GillSkull]

Thank you! I installed wordfence and followed your instructions :)

[Azam_Lahore]

Hi Matt. I love your detailed explanation on Wordfence. Thank you and keep it up in the future also.

[DiegoBrasileiroOficial]

O melhor conteúdo para wordfence, excelente, muito obrigado.

[theadvicesquad]

Thank you, Matt, for your excellent tutorial video. I almost broke my neck following your instructions, but it was worth it!

[Anonymous-rgdd]

Awesome! The video length 21 mins but didn't bored because of your expression. Also, I loved it for the in-depth explanation. Keep it up.

[jadens]

Thanks, Matt. 🙂 I'm always referring back to this video whenever I set up a new website. I’ve just secured my latest blog. 😆

[christhjian]

I have to say it again - you have a real talent in teaching these things. There are great channels with more followers, but you are a top tier video maker as well.

I have a question as well: why should one get Wordfence Premium? What are the benefits and for who is it aimed at?

[jimmynkhata]

Wow, just did it on my site by following your instructions. Thanks Bro

[nasirulalam]

woww !!! it's super helpful... Did it without having any problem.

[xyzzzzzzdkdk]

Thank toy so much i have finished as per your guide...you are genius..

[kolan_es]

Thanks Matt! This is a brilliant tutorial for a complete newbie as me! I've just completed my first WP-website and as the icing on the cake I finished with installing and setting up WordFence - following your tutorial. I'll probably go live in a week.