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You may have not noticed it, but if you have a popular WordPress website, people will keep attacking its login page to hack it. We have already covered many plugins and scripts that let you protect your login page from hack attacks. Loginizer is another plugin designed to help you fight against brute force attacks.
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Continue ReadingIn the past few years, we have covered plenty of plugins and scripts that can protect your login page. This is one of the main pages hackers attack all the time. Changing its URL is one way to reduce the number of bot attacks against your site. Move Login lets you do just that. It lets you display an error message when people reach your old login page. [click to continue…]
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Continue ReadingMany of us use our WordPress username/password on multiple computers to access our website. What if you forget to log out after accessing your site on a computer? Prevent Concurrent Logins is a WordPress plugin that prevents users from staying logged into the same account on multiple computers. It destroys old sessions and discourages members from sharing their accounts with others.
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Continue ReadingIn the past few years, we have published a bunch of articles on how you can protect your WordPress login page against hack attacks. You can always limit login attempts, restrict page access by IP, or even hide your URL. Tracking successful and failed login attempts is not a bad idea either. Simple Login Log happens to be just the plugin you need to track login attempts of users. It lets you see who has logged on from where.
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Continue ReadingHave you used credit card or online banking sites recently? If so, you have probably noticed that they log you out if you are not active for a certain period of time. This feature is not new. It has been around for what seems to be ages. You can implement the same feature on your website with these 2 plugins:
Automatic Sign Out For Inactivity: automatically signs out users after a specified time period of inactivity. You can specify a page where the user will be redirected to when logged out. [click to continue…]
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Continue ReadingYour WordPress login page is one of the most important pages on your website. If you don’t have a strong password, hackers can break through your defenses and do your site great harm. Limiting access to the WordPress login page by IP is a very good idea. You could also hide or rename the page to make it harder for people to find it:
Rename wp-login.php: as the name suggests, this plugin lets you change wp-login.php to anything you want. It accomplishes that by intercepting page requests and could reduce brute force attacks. [click to continue…]
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Continue ReadingYour login page is one of the most important pages on your website. If hackers get through it somehow, you are in big trouble. You should use a long password and take measures to protect your login page from hackers. When you are accessing your admin pages on a mobile device, you may not want to use your passwords to log in. These 5 mobile login plugins for WordPress can make your life easier:
Clef: adds password-free login to WordPress. It uses encrypted, multi-factor authentication to let you log in. All you have to do is scan the Clef Wave with your Clef app, and you are in. [click to continue…]
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