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GETTING STARTED

  • Patchstack Documentation
  • Pricing Plans
  • Signing Up
  • Adding the First Site
  • Installing Patchstack Plugin
    • Automatic Installation
    • Manual Installation

PATCHSTACK APP

  • Dashboard
  • Sites
    • Adding a Site
    • Deleting a Site
    • Tags
    • Instant Site Search
  • Site Dashboard
    • Overview
    • Components
    • Hardening > Firewall
    • Hardening > Hardening
    • Hardening > Login Protection
    • Hardening > Cookie Notice
    • Firewall
    • Uptime
    • Activity
    • Users
    • Add-Ons
    • Plugin
  • Firewall
    • Firewall Logs
    • Rules
    • Modules
    • Site Groups
  • Components
    • Overview
    • Logs
    • Automatic Updates
  • Add-Ons
    • Incident Response Assistance
    • Report Whitelabel
    • Additional Seats
    • + 500 API calls per day
  • Alerts
    • Triggers
    • Creating a Trigger
  • Reports
    • Generating Reports
    • Reports Whitelabeling
  • Account Settings
    • Setting up 2FA
    • Integrations
    • Team
    • API
    • My Plan
    • Billing & Invoices
  • App Errors

PATCHSTACK PLUGIN

  • Introduction
  • Welcome Screen
  • Plugin Settings
  • How to Update
  • How to Uninstall

Vulnerability Database

  • Vulnerability API for Developers
  • Vulnerability API for Hosts
  • Properties & Implementation

FAQ & TROUBLESHOOTING

  • Billing & Refunds
    • Do you offer refunds?
    • Should I upgrade from AppSumo to Pro?
  • Account & Profile
    • How do I delete my Patchstack account?
    • 2FA recovery
  • Pricing Plans
    • How does the annual plan pricing work and how will I be charged?
    • Does Patchstack have a free version?
  • Add-Ons
    • What is Incident Response Assistance?
  • Alerts & Notifications
    • Is there a way to activate notifications when a site goes down?
    • How to send email notifications to all my team members?
  • Reports
    • How to generate security reports?
  • Malware Cleanup
    • How are the website cleanups made in Patchstack?
    • Does Patchstack include a malware scanner/cleanup tool?
  • Integrations
    • How to get the site and secret key for the reCAPTCHA feature?
  • Technical
    • Does Patchstack incorporate a CDN?
    • Do I need to set up a CDN service for setting up the firewall?
    • Does our firewall protect from DDoS attacks?
    • List of IP addresses, that Patchstack servers use
    • How to configure Patchstack to work with Cloudflare?
    • Does Patchstack work with nginx?
    • How to fix "Improper HTTP to HTTPS redirection"?
    • How to fix the missing security headers issue?
    • Does Patchstack work with other captcha plugins?
    • Will Patchstack plugin help my site pass PCI-DSS, SOC2, ISO 127001 or other security checks?
  • Plugin
    • Updating Patchstack from <= 2.0.20
    • Does the Patchstack plugin work on the server level or on an application level?
    • How to delete the Patchstack plugin manually?
    • How to install or reinstall the plugin?
    • Where is the Patchstack settings page on the plugin?
    • Why is my site not working after updating the plugin?
    • Where do I find the Site ID and Site Secret Key?
    • Can I install the same plugin file on all of my sites?
  • Firewall
    • App is showing the firewall of my site as delayed
    • I activated the plugin, but still get the message: Install the plugin to activate the firewall
    • How do I use the country blocking feature?
    • How do I block an IP address from accessing my site?
    • Legitimate visitors or pages are being blocked by the firewall. How do I add this to the whitelist?
    • What is the difference between a WAF and Virtual Patching?
  • Other
    • What is the CVSS score?
    • How to write a review for Patchstack?
    • Data Processing Agreement (DPA) and GDPR
    • Does the Patchstack plugin find corrupted files or malware?
    • How does the Patchstack firewall compare to Sucuri or Wordfence?
    • What is the best way to resell Patchstack to my customers?
    • Are the cookie notice and privacy policy available in other languages?
    • How do I connect Patchstack with multisite environment?
    • How does multisite work and what is the pricing model?
    • Theme editor missing
    • How do I turn on the XML-RPC feature?
    • Can I have other security plugins activated and running next to Patchstack?
    • Does Patchstack work with MarketPlan.io?
    • Does Patchstack work with LiteSpeed?
    • The app is saying my site does not use WordPress even though it does. How to fix?
    • I installed the plugin on my site but it still shows I have missing headers on the app. Why is that?
    • Auto-install feature for the plugin is not working properly
    • Dashboard shows no attacks blocked
    • How do I remove Patchstack from the GDPR cookie notice?
    • How do I add an intranet site to the app?
    • Does Patchstack have a malware scanner?
  • Errors
    • Error: "Cannot redeclare class Patchstack in…"
    • Error Code 7
    • Error Code 22
    • Error Code 23
    • Error: "Destination folder already exists"
    • Error: Blocked as suspected bot
    • Error: Cannot activate plugin because of: SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure
    • Error: You have entered an incorrect reCAPTCHA value on Login Page
    • Error: "CSRF token missing or mismatch"
    • Error: "The URL <URL> is invalid."
    • Error: "The URL <URL> cannot be added since it returned a 5xx error code, this indicates an internal server error on your site. Please make sure it is accessible and not in maintenance mode."
    • Error: "The URL <URL> cannot be added since it timed-out or resulted in a server error. Is it currently online?"
    • The plugin caused my site or admin page to show a PHP error, what to do?
    • Error: "Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons"
    • Error: "Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by"
    • Error: "Can't use function return value in write context in ..."
    • Error: The site <URL> cannot be added since it is invalid or blocks Patchstack from accessing the site.

Changelog

  • Plugin Changelog
  • App Changelog

Installing Patchstack Plugin

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Patchstack can be set up in two ways:

  • automatically through the Patchstack web app (recommended)
  • manually through your WordPress site

Patchstack plugin itself can be found from WordPress repository: https://wordpress.org/plugins/patchstack/

Updated 8 months ago

What’s Next
  • Automatic Installation
  • Manual Installation