How to Secure WordPress from Password Cracking with Limit Login Attempts

We always wish to have 100% security for our online products and services. WordPress sites are one of the main targeted areas of Hackers. If you just goes through some hacker news sites you can easily find 100′s of sites hacked every day. Thus every small business owners should take care about security of WordPress sites. Limit Login Attempts will help to secure WordPress site from those who prefer to use password cracking. Sometimes even friends, relatives and competitors may try to retrieve your WordPress password by some simple trial and error methods.

How to Use Limit Login Attempts WordPress Plugin

Limit Login Attempts is a free WordPress plugin. It can be effectively used to protect your WordPress site from Password Cracking. By default WordPress allows unlimited login attempts either through the login page or by sending special cookies. Sometimes this will ease work of hackers. Using Limit Login Attempts WordPress plugin will help us to limit failed login attempts. After a number of failed login attempts it will automatically locked out for fixed time period(User from same IP). You can set all these limits and time period through admin panel.

Features According to Developer

Limit the several retry attempts when logging in (for each IP). Fully customizable .
Limit the number of attempts to log in using auth cookies in same way
Informs user about remaining attempts for lockout time on login page
Optional logging, optional email notification
Handles server behind reverse proxy

One another cool feature is controlling the number of lockouts. You can even ban that IP for a year or more after specified number of lockouts.

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