Checkout Origin Guard Now Live in the WordPress Plugin Repository

Michael Winchester SEO
block checkout bots from your shopping cart

After weeks of development, testing, and countless refinements, Checkout Origin Guard has officially been accepted into the WordPress Plugin Repository.

For those who haven’t followed the project from the start, Checkout Origin Guard (formerly WC Origin Guard) was built to solve a problem that’s been growing across WooCommerce stores: fake checkouts, spam orders, and automated scripts that hammer the payment page pretending to be customers.

This plugin sits quietly at checkout, watching the origin and behavior of each session, things like dwell time, click patterns, and company name heuristics, to determine if it’s a real person or a bot. When it’s not, the request is blocked, logged, or flagged depending on your mode (Monitor, Soft, or Hard). This plugin does what others have failed to do, stop these bunk orders cold.

It also includes:

  • A BotBlock engine that filters known crawlers and checkout scripts. This is the same BotBlock I use in Site-First SEO
  • Company Shield, which detects suspicious business names and email patterns.
  • A live traffic log where you can manually block or unblock IPs.
  • Flexible controls so you can run in watch-only mode while you gather data.

I originally built Checkout Origin Guard to protect one of my own WooCommerce installations, then realized a lot of small shop owners were quietly facing the same problem, without tools designed for them.

Checkout Origin Guard joins my other public release, Site-First SEO: a full on-site optimization suite for WordPress. Between the two, store owners can now handle both security and SEO right from the dashboard, with zero external dependencies.

Both plugins are available free in the WordPress Plugin Repository:

If you’re running WooCommerce and want to see exactly who’s hitting your checkout, and why.. give it a try.

Michael Winchester
Latest posts by Michael Winchester (see all)
CategoriesWordPress plugins

Author: Michael Winchester

Coming from a background in design for the music industry; everything ranging from websites and micro-sites to custom print and apparel designs, I bring a creative edge to corporate, construction-focused, and other web projects that need to stand out. I strive to apply that same clarity and originality when writing about SEO/GEO and website performance; aiming to make complex topics more approachable, concise, and easy-to-understand. Outside of work, I spend my time field recording, playing with sound, and building experimental musical instruments. Michael Winchester is a website developer and search engine consultant in Southern California. Michael Winchester Design | (562)283-5688