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BBQ Firewall – Fast & Powerful Firewall Security

The fastest firewall plugin for WordPress. Protect against a wide range of threats with minimal performance impact.
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Nov 20, 2025
BBQ Firewall – Fast & Powerful Firewall Security

🔥 Install, activate, and done! 🔥 Powerful protection from WP’s fastest firewall plugin.

BBQ Firewall is a lightweight, blazing-fast firewall plugin that protects your site against a wide range of threats. BBQ checks all incoming traffic and quietly blocks bad requests containing nasty stuff like eval(, base64_, and excessively long request-strings. This is a simple yet solid solution for sites that are unable to use a strong Apache/.htaccess firewall.

🔥 Adds a strong firewall to ANY WordPress site 🔥 Works with all WordPress plugins and themes

Powerful Protection

BBQ protects your site against many threats:

  • SQL injection attacks
  • Executable file uploads
  • Directory traversal attacks
  • Unsafe character requests
  • Excessively long requests
  • PHP remote/file execution
  • XSS, XXE, and related attacks
  • Protects against bad bots
  • Protects against bad referrers
  • Protects against bad POST content
  • Protects against many other bad requests

🔥 Works great with Blackhole for Bad Bots and Banhammer

Fantastiska funktioner

BBQ provides all the best firewall features:

  • Rated 5 stars at WordPress.org
  • 100% plug-&-play, zero configuration
  • 100% focused on security and performance
  • Blocks a wide range of malicious URL requests
  • Fastest Web Application Firewall (WAF) for WordPress
  • Based on the 7G/8G Firewall
  • Scans all incoming traffic and blocks bad requests
  • Scans all types of requests: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.
  • Protects against known bad bots and referrers
  • Works silently behind the scenes to protect your site
  • Hassle-free security plugin that’s easy to use
  • Thoroughly tested, error-free performance
  • Extremely low rate of false positives
  • Compatible with other security plugins
  • Regularly updated and ”future proof”
  • Firewall < 10 kilobytes in size
  • Lightweight, fast and flexible

🔥 For advanced protection and features, check out BBQ Pro »

Exclusive Pro Version Features

  • Customize firewall via plugin settings
  • Easily add or remove firewall patterns
  • Easily add Jeff Starr’s AI Block List
  • Send Email Alerts for blocked requests
  • Quickly enable/disable firewall rules
  • Disable firewall for logged-in users
  • Block excessively long URI requests
  • Protect against XML-RPC exploits
  • Block any individual IP address
  • Block entire ranges of IP addresses
  • Protect against user-ID phishing
  • Redirect all blocked requests
  • Display a custom ”blocked” message
  • Set your own response status code
  • Complete inline documentation
  • Statistics for blocked requests
  • Tools to reset options and patterns
  • Import and Export firewall patterns
  • One-click pattern testing
  • Whitelist IP addresses

..plus everything the free version can do and more.

🔥 Learn more and get BBQ Pro »

Integritet

This plugin does not collect or store any user data. It does not set any cookies, and it does not connect to any third-party locations. Thus, this plugin does not affect user privacy in any way.

BBQ Firewall is developed and maintained by Jeff Starr, 15-year WordPress developer and book author.

🔥 BBQ = Block Bad Queries

Support development

I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can make a donation or purchase one of my books:

And/or purchase one of my premium WordPress plugins:

Links, tweets and likes also appreciated. Thank you! 🙂

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