After reading about a few WordPress Blogs getting hacked, I am finding that I have started reading more about the Online Security aspects, and probably a few of my last posts reflect that as well. Recently I have come across a really nice WordPress Plugin, which is a great tool to restrict unauthorized access to your WordPress Blog.
Welcome to Login LockDown WordPress Plugin.
It records the IP address and timestamp of every attempt which results in failure to login to your WordPress Account. If it is seen that the a particular IP is repeatedly attempting and failing to login to your account then the login function is disabled for all requests from that range. This foils the attempt to break your password simple by trial and error methods.
Currently the plugin defaults to a 1 hour lock out of an IP block after 3 failed login attempts within 5 minutes. This can be modified via the Options panel. Administrators can release locked out IP ranges manually from the panel.
They have recently released the version 1.2 of the plugin, which is compatible with WordPress 2.5.1 also.
Download: Login LockDown v1.2
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:11 am
weee. Thanks for the link love. I’m so happy that there are a lot that learned from my experience.Thanks also for that Login LockDown WordPress Plugin. That would be definitely helpful.
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:47 am
This seem like great plugin
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:42 am
wow great find! so now i can be more safe with this plugin
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:00 pm
thanx this article
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:18 pm
this is very cool
my previous blog was hacked once and he even changed my account’s password of FTP
the blog was distributing malware for over 2 weeks
and I could’nt do anything
Hope this plugin will prevent such attacks
July 8th, 2008 at 4:43 am
very good plugin there gona download and install to see what it can do for me
July 8th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Keep on blogging, we need you. I’ve got so much useful stuff from your blog and really value you opinion in this stuff.
July 8th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
@ Divorce: I am glad that you liked it. Did you grab the RSS feed?
@ Moin: It really seems to be very useful.
August 15th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Wow, I have just downloaded it. Nice plugin.
September 5th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Thanks so much for your posts. I have learned so much off this site! You rock :>
September 8th, 2008 at 1:44 am
I Have been Thinking about upgrading security to my wordpress blog but I seem always to find something else thats a bit more intresting to me. Security is essential and it will serve me right if I dont do anything about it sooner or later.
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:27 am
It really annoys me that people try to hack your blogs, I have already manged to get security for my blog and I would recommend adding it to all your blog sites.
April 15th, 2009 at 7:46 am
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May 23rd, 2010 at 7:03 am
Thanks for your post, I am using WordPress and increased the security by installing the plug-in you recommended.
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August 2nd, 2010 at 12:29 am
Thanks fir sharing .
I increased the security throught a plug-in..
It is useful
February 6th, 2013 at 1:53 pm
thanks for sharing great plugins,