Htaccess by BestWebSoft – WordPress Website Access Control Plugin

V1.8.9 – 14.04.2026

• Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 7.0.
• Update : BWS Panel section was updated.
• NEW : Limit access to wp-admin by IP.

V1.8.8 – 10.08.2025

• Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 6.8.2.
• Update : BWS Panel section was updated.
• NEW : The ability to block by User-Agent was added.

V1.8.7 – 10.05.2024

• Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 6.5.2.
• Update : BWS Panel section was updated.
• Bugfix : The .htaccess file editing has been fixed.
• Pro : The ability to save blocked and allowed ips in a separate file was added.

V1.8.6 – 23.02.2024

• Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 6.4
• Update : BWS Panel section was updated.
• Pro : The ability to block domain with .htaccess file was added.

V1.8.5 – 26.04.2022

• Bugfix : Deactivation Feedback fix.

V1.8.4 – 24.03.2022

• Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 5.9
• Update : BWS Panel section was updated.

V1.8.3 – 20.07.2021

• Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 5.8
• Update : BWS Panel section was updated.

V1.8.2 – 10.03.2020

• Bugfix : Vulnerabilities and security issues were fixed.
• Update : The plugin settings page was changed.

V1.8.1 – 04.09.2019

• Update: The deactivation feedback has been changed. Misleading buttons have been removed.

V1.8.0 – 09.01.2019

• Bugfix : The bug with adding and deleting IP address in Allow from and Deny from fields has been fixed.
• Bugfix : The bug with option Disable Hotlinking has been fixed.
• Update : All functionality for WordPress 5.0.2 was updated.

V1.7.9 – 21.09.2018

• NEW : The ability to customize .htaccess file was added.
• NEW : The ability to create backup of .htaccess file was added.
• NEW : The ability to restore .htaccess file before backup was added.

V1.7.8 – 01.02.2018

• Update : We updated all functionality for WordPress 4.9.2.

V1.7.7 – 13.07.2017

• Update : We updated all functionality for WordPress 4.8.

V1.7.6 – 14.04.2017

• Bugfix : Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was fixed.

V1.7.5 – 21.02.2017

• Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.7.2.
• Update : Function to parse .htaccess file was updated.

V1.7.4 – 15.08.2016

• Update : All functionality for WordPress 4.6 was updated.

V1.7.3 – 28.06.2016

• Update : The Polish language file is updated.

V1.7.2 – 05.05.2016

• Update : All IPs that have been added to .htaccess automatically via plugin`s interaction hooks moved to “automatically added” options and won’t be stored in the database. If you also use Limit Attempts or Limit Attempts Pro by BestWebSoft plugins, please pay attention to the fact that you may need to update list of IPs on the Htaccess by BestWebSoft settings page. For more info see FAQ.
• Update : All functionality for wordpress 4.5.1 has been updated.
• Bugfix : The bug with converting of IPv4 ranges like xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx-yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy to the CIDR has been fixed.

V1.7.1 – 19.02.2016

• Update : Functionality for saving plugin settings has been updated.
• Update : Compatibility with the Limit Attempts plugin has been updated.
• Bugfix : The bug with adding plugin directions to .htaccess has been fixed.
• Bugfix : The bug with plugin menu duplicating has been fixed.

V1.7.0 – 05.10.2015

• Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.3.1.
• Update : Auxiliary notices were added. Tooltips displaying was updated.

V1.6.9 – 20.08.2015

• NEW : Ability to allow access to the xml files ( for network, which based on sub-directories ).

V1.6.8 – 14.07.2015

• NEW : Ability to restore settings to defaults.

V1.6.7 – 11.06.2015

• Bugfix : We fixed the error with Order Deny Alow lines overflow in the .htaccess file.

V1.6.6 – 11.05.2015

• NEW : The Polish language file is added to the plugin.
• Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.2.2.

V1.6.5 – 01.04.2015

• Bugfix : An error that occurs when Order Deny,Alow entries are manually added to .htaccess file was fixed.
• Update : BWS plugins section is updated.

V1.6.4 – 02.03.2015

• Bugfix : We fixed plugin errors when working on multisite
• Bugfix : We fixed the error deleting IP addresses when working with the Limit Attempts plugin

V1.6.3 – 20.02.2015

• Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.1.1
• Update : BWS plugins section is updated.

V1.6.2 – 28.01.2015

• Update : We updated all functionality for Limit Attempts Pro plugin.

V1.6.1 – 12.01.2015

• Update : BWS plugins section is updated.
• Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.1.

V1.6 – 06.10.2014

• Bugfix : Bug with access rights to an .htaccess file was fixed.

V1.5 – 07.08.2014

• Bugfix : Security Exploit was fixed.

V1.4 – 28.07.2014

• Update : We updated all functionality for Limit Attempts plugin.

V1.3 – 14.05.2014

• NEW : The Ukrainian language file is added to the plugin.
• Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 3.9.1.

V1.2 – 04.04.2013

• Update : Screenshots are updated.
• Update : BWS plugins section is updated.
• Budfix : Plugin optimization is done.

V1.1

• NEW: The ability to change the Directive block of the existing .htaccess file was added. Plugin optimization is done.