Login Security
A lot of brute-force attacks are performed on WordPress websites without you probably noticed it. These attacks are performed by computer programs and consists to try every possible password until to find the correct one. If you use a popular password such as “123456” or “qwerty” it’s very easy to access your website through a brute force attack.
Login Security is a plugin that tries to protect you against such attacks. Every successful or failed login attempts are recorded. You will probably discover that a lot of brute force attacks are performed on your website. This plugin can tell you how many times an IP address tried to access to the Back-Office of your WordPress website. Then you can easily block the access of this IP address in just “one click”.
On the tested websites there was an average of over 800 login attempts per day.
Current features
- Records every login attempts (failed or successful). Can be used to tell you when a user login
- Display all the failed login or successful login with the associated IP, User-Agent and HTTP referer
- Stats over the number of failed login during last 7 days and last 12 months
- Discover which IP address tries the most to access your website
- Banned an IP address
- Multi languages : English, French (from : France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg)
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How to uninstall Login Security
To uninstall this plugin, you just have to de-activate the plugin from the plugins list.
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.