Which WordPress Security Plugin Should You Use? Patchstack vs Wordfence

[@Oliversi]

Awesome video David, great to see neutral reviews like that! One comment about Patchstack Community (Free) version is that you'll actually get the dashboard also even if you're on free / community plan and can connect up to 99 websites to a single Patchstack account. :)

[@DavidMcCan]

Thanks. Good to know about the dashboard. Sorry I missed that.

[@graceazlee]

Thanks David. Very helpful comparison. If Patchstack is comparable to Wordfence, why does it only have 4,000+ installs vs 4m+ for WordFence?

[@DavidMcCan]

The free version of Patchstack, which is relatively new, only notifies you if you have something installed with a known security issue. The comparison is with the pro version of Patchstack.

[@chadulous7929]

Thanks for the great video, very informative! In the video, you mentioned you're subscribed to several sources for WordPress vulnerability/security information, would you mind sharing those sources?

[@DavidMcCan]

WordFence, iThemes Security, and Patchstack each have a regular newsletter with info.

[@chadulous7929]

Great, thanks David!

[@imanol4468]

Hello David. I look Patchstack's web and for 1 web they charge 162$. New prices are 13.48$ per month yearly and monthly is 14.98$ VAT excluded. On those prices I think makes no sense and better go with the Ithemes + BBQ Firewall.

[@DavidMcCan]

I'm surprised they priced themselves higher than Wordfence. It seems like they would miss a lot of business that way.

[@nchomey]

How did you get P3 Performance Profiler to work? As far as I'm aware, it doesn't work with PHP 7 and is essentially abandonned/deprecated...

[@DavidMcCan]

I guess I was lucky. It just worked.

[@nchomey]

@@DavidMcCan Fair enough. Thanks for the wonderful review, as always!