PureGuard — Bot Protection & Performance
PureGuard is a simple, safe bot-protection plugin for WordPress. You pick one of three security modes — the plugin configures everything else for you. No confusing combinations, no accidental blocking.
Every visitor is sorted into one of three lanes:
- Humans — proven real visitors (always allowed).
- Suspicious — not clearly a bot, but not clearly human either.
- Bots — confirmed bots.
The three modes
- Off (Log only) — Nothing is ever blocked or challenged. The plugin only observes and reports. Use this when your traffic is already filtered upstream.
- Medium (recommended) — Confirmed bots are blocked. Humans and Suspicious visitors both pass freely. No challenge page.
- High — Confirmed bots are blocked and Suspicious visitors must pass a quick JavaScript browser check.
Multilingual challenge page
The High-mode challenge page automatically detects the visitor’s browser language and shows localized text. English, Thai, Bahasa Indonesia, Vietnamese, and Burmese (Myanmar) are built in, and every line is editable from the settings page.
Engagement intelligence
Optionally measures anonymous time-on-page and scroll signals so PureGuard can score traffic quality per site. No personal data is collected.
Stats you can see
A Stats tab and a dashboard widget show exactly what the plugin is doing: Humans / Suspicious / Bots counts, API checks, and challenge pass rate. No silent blocking.