Limit Login attempts plugin is a fantastic plugin and is a like a life saver for many bloggers. This plugin security tools could be used at the best usage and the GUI is just simple. I with this post want to show the security threats in front of Self hosted wordpress blogs and some addon security steps that could help you save your Blog from hackers. Hacking is no more a group of super coders hacking into top sites of the world to set up the reign of terror. It is now a business where these masterminds usually hack your website and ask for the extortion money. Sometimes they are human being and greatest times these are some dedicated servers of remote corners of the earth and trying to find your easy password and get into your website and kill all your years of years of efforts. This is a new business which is getting developed in online world and is thus a nasty way to earn your devil status in online world. Previously humans used to crack your passwords now they are replaced by dedicated servers with most devilish banned ips trying to look into your website and hence take control of your data to negotiate with you.
This is an irony with the self hosted WordPress bloggers as they are left with not much information and as the reputation grows so are the devils looking to hunt their website down. But thanks to Google even they are supporting cause of these webmasters stuck in hacked websites situation. Crawling immediately stops once the site is found to be hacked or with malware with it. The content is auto deindexed and webmaster effort is die off. But now the situation has changed hacked sites when recovered if appealed to Google gets reindexed and the backlinks and page ranking reinstated by google on appeal. Coming back to the topic in hand the Limit Login Attempts Plugin and how this simple plugin can help you being saved by small bots attack or password stolen situation. Now your site is constantly growing in traffic page rank with lots and lots of readers coming to read what you think about a topic. Suddenly some silly password hacker who is trying to sneak into your website gets hold of your password then? Now to save yourself of this situation a plugin is introduced called as Limit Login Attempts pluginby johanee with a Super Solid reputation of 4.8 Stars out of 5 this plugin just nails the password poachers down. But this plugin needs to be tweaked with few configuration and I am going to tell you how to do it.
Now you got the plugin and installed in your self hosted WordPress blog, you get below menu with following items on display-
1. Total lock Outs- It indicates the number of attempts to hack your password is foiled by this plugin.
2. Active Lockouts- Number of IPs which crossed the max number of attempts and hence being blocked to attempt login any further.
3. Options-It is the main area where in you can play around with the settings of this plugin and hence utmost care should be taken to never yourself get locked out or your IP Blacklisted through this plugin. The ideal configuration is to keep 9999 Minutes of Lock out, plus 1 Lockout increases lockout time to 9999 Hours.
This way you discourage the possible poachers who try to hunt in your website through you wp-admin log in page. Another security tip which I mentioned in the initial of the post is that to never use admin username as the administrator. This is the common mistake by the bloggers that they keep administrative username as default admin. Where in I recommend to infact delete the admin user itself to eradicate any possible threat. You can use another username as administrator this way you save your website from unwanted sneakers. How you keep your blog safe? Share your thoughts via comments below. If you liked the article share it on Facebook and Twitter.
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