After a little bit of research, I have removed Login Lockdown and instead installed Limit Login Attempts.

After trying them both out, Login Lockdown was too easy to beat. However, Limit Login Attempts gives a lot more options and I cannot beat it! Once I have made all of my failed attempts that was it. There was no way into the website.

Well, apart from using phpMyAdmin and clearing the value against limit_login_lockouts in the options table!

So I am quite pleased with this plugin, that is a lot harder to find. But it is well worth it. There are a lot more set-up options. For example you can lock out an IP address after a couple of failed attempts, but only lock them out for a short time. If there are then more failed attempts you can then lock that IP address out for a lot longer and you can also set it up so that the admin user gets an email whenever someone is locked out (but I haven’t seen that email arrive yet from my testing, maybe this machine isn’t set up to get the admin emails).

WordPress is generally a secure tool to use, but the biggest weakness is the login and people trying to guess at your admin username and password. So such plugins can help secure your blog.

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