Tip #59: Important Tips for Using Security Plugins with Wishlist Member

June 28, 2015 0 Comments

When you are using Wishlist Member you are using a WordPress platform to manage many aspects of your membership site, for example: user registrations is managed by WordPress and extended by Wishlist Member by adding the membership levels for each member.

If you want to protect your membership site by regular WordPress security plugins, you need to consider that some of them will conflict with Wishlist Member if you are using specific settings.

In most cases, all WordPress security plugins can be used with Wishlist Member, but you need to test a few elementary aspects after enabling any security plugin.

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Tips for Using Security Plugins with Wishlist Member

1. Protection Settings

Some WordPress security plugins can cause problems with the built-in protection settings that Wishlist Member applied, and some of them, when using specific settings inside them, can block your website completely or disable the protection mechanism of Wishlist Member, making all the content public.

2. User Registration

Some security plugins block unwonted user registration to your WordPress site and, in many cases, this also blocks the member registration when using Wishlist Member or when using external registration plugins like: Wishlist Registration Widget or Wishlist Auto Registration.

Always check if your member registration is working after enabling a WordPress security plugin or changing one of the settings.

3. Use Login

Just like before, most security plugins try to block unwonted logins to your website. Although, in many cases, the login process is handled by WordPress and not by Wishlist, in some cases, you will find that a security plugin can conflict with Wishlist Member when a member try to login (especially when trying to redirect to the after-login page.

Final Conclusion

You can use WordPress security plugins with Wishlist Member without worrying about conflicts if you just check all the important points we have specified in this tip.

As always, you server security is the top layer of every website security and before trying to install any security plugin you should invest in a secure server.

You can check our complete guide to choosing your WordPress hosting provider at WPInsiders.co

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