Brecht Ryckaert

Thema door Anders Norén

Announcing Bot Blocker for WordPress

I’m excited to introduce something new into the WordPress world:

👉 The Bot Blocker for WordPress plugin.

This plugin helps you:

  • Block harmful and unwanted bots before they waste your bandwidth.
  • Protect your content and improve your site performance.
  • Reduce spam and security risks with a simple, reliable setup.
  • No subscription, just a one-time purchase.

And as a thank-you for being part of my community, you get an exclusive 25% launch discount.

🎁 Use code LAUNCH25 at checkout

This offer is only available for a limited time, so don’t miss your chance to upgrade your WordPress defenses and keep bad bots out.

Thank you for supporting my work—your trust means a lot, and I’m excited for you to try this new tool.

WordPress downgrade script

Whilst cleaning my local data, I found a script I had written to downgrade WordPress 6.2 installs to WordPress 6.1.1 specifically. While not current anymore, I thought it might be fun to share this as an example on how to script such a transaction:

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How to clean your hacked WordPress site?

Your site is hacked. What to do next? A lot of people will tell you just to restore a backup. But what most people do not take into account is that the original hack and the deployment of all malware isn’t always on the very same moment.

There’s a trend (that has surfaced and increased in popularity over the last 2 years) where a hacker finds a vulnerability, exploits it and injects a backdoor into your WordPress site. Next, they wait a couple of weeks or months. Once they’re sure you no longer have a non-infected backup, they use this backdoor to deploy the real malware to your website.

At this point, restoring a backup has become entirely useless. That’s why it’s better to clean your site than using a backup as a fallback (as you’d also be restoring the backdoor that allows the hacker to infect your site again afterwards).

So let’s learn how to clean your hacked WordPress site.

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Announcing WP Sweeper

“A new way to clean hacked WordPress sites”

I’ve spent the past couple of years learning and writing shell scripts. I’m also passionate about WordPress. As I’m often asked to clean hacked WordPress sites, I started to work on a script that automates this in a world where Corona still was just a beer.

Today I’m ready to announce WP Sweeper.

WP Sweeper in action

Discover WP Sweeper

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Brecht speaking at WordCamp Sofia

Improving WordPress security with the .htaccess

In this article I’ll share some of the security tweaks I tend to add to the .htaccess to improve security of the WordPress-installation.

Hide the wp-config.php file

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A small bash backup script for WordPress

As most of you know I work as an Escalation Engineer at Combell.com. Recently I crafted a tiny backup script that makes backups of my own site. While this script is optimized for use on shared servers at Combell.com, it can easily be adapted to be used anywhere.

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