Hammer Time
Banhammer Pro is a security plugin that monitors site traffic and enables admins to ban any visitor with a click.
Banhammer Pro gives you detailed information about each visit to your site via stylish and fun user interface.
Banhammer Pro brings awesome new features like whitelisting, bot detection, and editable targets. Plus, Banhammer Pro is lightweight, fast, and easy on resources. Perfect for the best WordPress sites. So you can protect against threats and increase site security.
Protect your site against enemy hordes!
Banhammer Pro gives you full control of site access. Visit the Armory to monitor traffic and track suspicious visits.
Find someone causing problems? Drop the Banhammer!
All banned, warned, and whitelisted targets will be locked in the Tower, where you can manage, view details, leave notes, or even show mercy and restore site access. You always are in full control.
Banhammer Pro
Protect your site like a boss:
- Monitor traffic via Ajax-powered UI
- Warn, Ban, Restore, or Whitelist any target
- Target by IP, UA, user, request, or referrer
- Display custom banned message to targets
- Lightweight and focused on performance
- Easy and fun to use! (check out the video ↑)
Choose Thy Options
Enjoy simple yet powerful settings:
- Quickly enable/disable plugin
- Disable protection for logged-in users
- Enable protection of the Login Page
- Enable protection of the Admin Area
- Custom Banned Response and Email Alerts
- Advanced settings for maximum control!
Complete Inline Docs
Get complete information with a click:
- Instant access to plugin information
- Plugin documentation on every screen
- Easily access information via the Help tab
- Every plugin option fully documented
- Keeps plugin pages nice and tidy
- Complete docs at your fingertips
Monitor Site Traffic
Monitor site traffic in the Armory:
- Complete Ajax-powered navigation
- Useful tools like jump, sort, search
- Enable/disable logging with a click
- View advanced data like POST and FILES
- Sound effects for Ban and Warn buttons
- Automatically clear logged data
Manage Banned Targets
Manage banned and warned targets in the Tower:
- Complete Ajax-powered navigation
- Whitelist, restore, warn or ban any target
- Edit/customize targets for greater control
- Customize ban message & add private notes
- Highlights current user in Armory and Tower
- Sound effects for Ban, Warn, and more
Drop the Banhammer
Customize the banned response:
- Customize the response code
- Customize the banned response
- Optional redirect for banned targets
- Email Alerts for banned and warned targets
- Smart bot detection
- Self-ban safety net
100% WordPress
Security you can trust:
- Built with WordPress APIs
- Focused on security and performance
- Works great with any WordPress theme
- Works great with other WordPress plugins
- Developed by 15-year WP/security expert
- Fast, secure, squeaky clean code
Powerful Features
Fine-grained control over everything:
- Edit any target via the Tower
- Add private notes to warned/banned targets
- Email Alerts for warned and banned requests
- Choose the interval to clear logged data
- One-click restore plugin default options
- All collected data may be deleted easily
- Whitelist IPs, User Agents, and more
- Auto-import data from free version
- Manually add/block IP addresses
- Read what users say about Banhammer Pro »
Check out full screenshots of Banhammer Pro:
Check the Banhammer Pro readme.txt for more details.
Free vs Pro
What is the difference between free and pro versions? In a nutshell: more features and more control.
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| No configuration required | ✓ | ✓ |
| No Apache/.htaccess required | ✓ | ✓ |
| Works with SSL/HTTPS | ✓ | ✓ |
| Super lightweight and fast | ✓ | ✓ |
| Works great with Blackhole Pro and BBQ Pro | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ban any WordPress user or IP address that visits your site | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ban based on URI request, referrer, or user agent | ✓ | |
| Whitelist any IP address or user agent | ✓ | |
| View cookies, POST data, and FILES data | ✓ | |
| Email Alerts for banned & warned requests | ✓ | |
| Display custom message to each banned target | ✓ | |
| Add private notes to warned/banned targets | ✓ | |
| Customize target strings for user agents, IPs, etc. | ✓ | |
| Disable logging of banned, warned, and whitelisted targets | ✓ | |
| Smart bot detection | ✓ | |
| Paged results in Tower | ✓ | |
| User avatars in Tower | ✓ | |
| Self-ban safety net | ✓ | |
| Extensive documentation and tutorials | ✓ | |
| Priority plugin help and support | ✓ | |
| No advertisements | ✓ |
Ready to go pro? Get Banhammer Pro ↓
