I was trying to test and set-up the Featured Content Gallery plugin for a client using a Localhost WAMP stack on Windows and it would not work. After doing some digging I found out it will not work until you turn on: Short Open Tag and restart services.
Protecting your WordPress Install.php File
In the .htaccess ad the following code:
# PROTECT install.php
<Files install.php>
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
Satisfy all
</Files>
WP-Ban Plug-in
Ban users by IP, IP Range, host name, user agent and referrer url from visiting your WordPress site
It will display a custom ban message when the banned IP, IP range, host name or referer url trys to visit you blog. You can also exclude certain IPs from being banned. There will be statistics recordered on how many times they attemp to visit your blog. It allows wildcard matching too.
All the information (general, changelog, installation, upgrade, usage) you need about this plugin can be found here: WP-Ban Readme. It is the exact same readme.html is included in the zip package.

