20+ Wordpress Plugins to Analyze and Secure Your Blog

WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms.So,the most important question comes with security features, hackers always looking for vulnerabilities to hack into your blog and If your WP development knowledge is limited, your best option is to download and install plugins.There is also a need to have the analytic and static information of the blog.These several WordPress plugins will help you in analizing and securing your WordPress blog.

Analytics & Stats

1. WordPress.com Stats

Once it's running it'll begin collecting information about your pageviews, which posts and pages are the most popular, where your traffic is coming from, and what people click on when they leave. It'll also add a link to your dashboard which allows you to see all your stats on a single page.

2. WassUp

WassUp is a new Wordpress plugin to track your visitors in real time. It has a very readable and fancy admin console to keep tracks of your blog's users visits. It has a "current visitors online" view and a more detailed "visitors details" view where you can know almost everything your users are doing on your blog, it's very useful for SEO or statistics maniacs.

3. MailChimpAnalytics360

MailChimp offers other services for WordPress users, too. A list subscribe plugin allows you to easily add a signup form for your MailChimp list as a widget on your blog, and RSS-to-email sends automatic email campaigns to your readers whenever you publish a new post.

4. Google Analyticator

Google Analyticator adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics logging on any WordPress blog. This eliminates the need to edit your template code to begin logging. Google Analyticator also includes several widgets for displaying Analytics data in the admin and on your blog.

5. StatPress

Using StatPress you could spy your visitors while they are surfing your blog or check which are the preferred pages, posts and categories. In the Dashboard menu you will find the StatPress page where you could look up the statistics (overview or detailed). StatPress also includes a widget one can possibly add to a sidebar (or easy PHP code if you can't use widgets!).

6. StatPressCN

This plugin shows you real time statistics about your blog, track your friends's visit, provide function such as post's hotness, hottest post, related post, visitor's list at current time, also support for Chinese perfectly. It collects information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers, OS etc.

7. WP-Stats

All the information (general, changelog, installation, upgrade, usage) you need about this plugin can be found here: WP-Stats Readme. It is the exact same readme.html is included in the zip package.

8. Google Analytics for WordPress

The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads. It also allows you to track AdSense clicks, add extra search engines, track image search queries and it will even work together with Urchin.

9. Search Meter

Search Meter automatically records what people are searching for -- and whether they are finding what they are looking for. Search Meter's admin interface shows you what people have been searching for in the last couple of days, and in the last week or month.

10. Ultimate Google Analytics

Plugin to add Google Analytics JavaScript to each page on your weblog without making any changes to your template. The plugin can also add tracking to outbound links, downloads from your own site and mailto: links.

11. Woopra Analytics Plugin

Woopra is the world's most comprehensive, information rich, easy to use, real-time Web tracking and analysis application.

Features include:

  • Live Tracking and Web Statistics
  • A rich user interface and client monitoring application
  • Real-time Analytics
  • Manage Multiple Blogs and Websites
  • Deep analytic and search capabilities
  • Click-to-chat

    • and many more.

    12. Feed Stats for WordPress

    Feed Stats for WordPress is a plugin that allows you to view your FeedBurner feed stats from inside of the WordPress admin interface.
    Stats for your feed can be viewed from the "Feed Stats" page in the "Dashboard" section of WordPress.

    13. CyStats

    CyStats is a feature-rich statistics plugin integrated in the WordPress admin area.

    Features are currently:

    1. Bounce rate, ignore-by-cookie, ignore-by-ip/post-id/user_agent lists
    2. hits, visits for day/week/month/year - human or robots
    3. Top refering pages
    4. Most read categories and tags
    5. Most read, most commented posts

    and many more

    Security Plugins

    14. Secure WordPress

    Secure WordPress, helps to secure your WordPress installation by removing error information on login pages, adds index.html to the plugin directory; removes the WP-version, except in the admin area.

    15. WP Security Scan

    This plugin will scan your entire WordPress installation and will suggest you regarding security vulnerabilities like passwords, database security, file permissions, admin security.

    16. Invisible Defender

    This plugin protects registration, login and comment forms from spambots by adding two extra fields hidden by CSS. This approach gave me 100% anti-spam protection on one of my sites.

    17. WP-SpamFree Anti-Spam

    An extremely powerful WordPress anti-spam plugin that eliminates blog comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam. Finally, you can enjoy a spam-free WordPress blog! Includes spam-free contact form feature as well.

    18. WordPress Database Backup

    It will help you backup all your core data and other content of your choice to the destination your choose: hard disk, email or remote server. In the event of crash either by your fault or from hackers, you can restore your WordPress blog from the backup file easily.

    19. Admin SSL

    The plugin forces SSL on all pages where passwords can be entered and it can also work with both Private and Shared SSL.
    A great feature of this plugin is that it can be installed on WordPress MU to force SSL across all of the blogs (only works if you have a Private SSL certificate installed).

    20. Simple CAPTCHA

    A CAPTCHA for your comment system to prevent unwanted spams. Prevent automated spams by bots and most important naughty peoples. It's simple and yet secure.

    21. HTTP Authentication

    The HTTP Authentication plugin allows you to use existing means of authenticating users for WordPress. This includes Apache's basic HTTP authentication module and many others.

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