WordPress
Live
Wordfence
WordPress firewall and malware scanner.
Security
Tooling
Type
WordPress plugin / theme
Stack
PHP
Year
2012
Duration
Multi-year
Overview
What I built & why
WordPress security plugin with a built-in firewall, malware scanner, login security, and threat-intelligence feed.
Free + paid Premium tiers; the most-installed WordPress security plugin.
Highlights
Key deliverables
- ✓ Firewall + WAF
- ✓ Malware scanner
- ✓ 2FA + reCAPTCHA
- ✓ Threat-intel feed
- ✓ Live traffic + alerts
Process
Challenge & solution
The challenge
The legacy stack required four manual exports each week and was slowing down hiring decisions across the team.
The solution
Wrote a zero-downtime migration pipeline that mirrored writes to both systems, then cut over after a clean shadow-read week.
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