Gatewarden

Gatewarden is a modular plugin designed to enhance security and mail delivery for WordPress and WooCommerce sites. It addresses the need for flexible, administrator-controlled protection by offering a suite of features that can be selectively enabled to match the requirements of each installation. The plugin’s interface and source strings are written in English and are prepared for translation through the gatewarden text domain, supporting multilingual site management.

Among its key capabilities, Gatewarden integrates CAPTCHA providers including Google reCAPTCHA v2, Google reCAPTCHA v3, and Cloudflare Turnstile, helping to prevent automated abuse across various site entry points. It extends protection to WordPress login, registration, lost password, password reset, and comment forms, as well as WooCommerce account login, registration, lost-password and reset-password forms, and both classic and block-based checkout processes. The plugin also offers a configurable limit on failed login attempts, providing further defense against brute-force attacks.

Gatewarden’s architecture is built around modularity and administrator control. All public protection, integration, privacy, event-logging, notification, SMTP, and uninstall-cleanup modules are disabled by default, allowing site administrators to activate only the features necessary for their specific context. This approach supports both security and privacy best practices, as unnecessary modules remain inactive unless explicitly enabled.

Additional features include categorized audit logs for tracking site events, security alerts to notify administrators of important incidents, privacy controls, and optional SMTP mail delivery for managing outgoing site emails. The plugin is delivered as a WordPress extension and is suitable for administrators seeking to improve the security, observability, and email handling of their WordPress or WooCommerce environments.