Cloudflare Firewall Rules for WordPress: Block Potentially Malicious Requests

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Rule 1: Allow Good Bots | Rule 2: Block Potentially Malicious Requests | Rule 3: Block Bad Bots | Rule 4: JS Challenge

The order of the next three rules is less important. It makes a difference in terms of logging – if a bot is blocked by rule 2 it won’t be logged by rule 3 – but not in effectiveness. Rule 2 blocks potentially malicious requests, whether they originate from bad bots or humans. This is a long rule set, so I’ll break it down.

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Domain Expiration Process

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The first rule of domain expiration for any domain that I care about is *** Do Not Let My Domain Expire! ***. I can manually extend my domain registration at any time. I can also use auto-renewal, which should save me as long as I make sure to keep my payment information up to date. I do both. So, I rely on auto-renewal to save me only if I forget to renew manually – which hasn’t happened, yet (*).

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Be Safe

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gin 'n tonicAll recent posts on wppov.com were composed on a freshly disinfected keyboard while wearing latex gloves and fabric face cover and enjoying an antimalarial beverage through a straw.

Is it safe? Cloudflare’s BGP checker.

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What is BGP?

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the postal service of the Internet … when someone submits data across the Internet, BGP is responsible for looking at all of the available paths that data could travel and picking the best route

BGP is an essential Internet protocol. But it has a weakness. It can occasionally go wonky, either by accident or by malicious actions. For example, routing large amounts of Internet traffic through a Russian-government-owned ISP. Read more Is it safe? Cloudflare’s BGP checker. ›

What is Yoast playing at?

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I’m a fan of the Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin. I’m also a fan of the Yoast SEO Plugin. Both have been very helpful on multiple occasions. But … on all of my sites Health Check is suddenly giving me a “Critical” – and, it turns out, fake – SEO error: “Your site cannot be found by search engine”; “This was reported by the Yoast SEO plugin”. Read more What is Yoast playing at? ›