How to Protect wp-admin from Unauthorized Login Attempts?

Cheerag Nundlall · Oct 11, 2023

Hello everyone,

I need some advice on protecting my WordPress wp-admin area from unauthorized login attempts, particularly from bots. I'm concerned about security and want to ensure my website is safe. Can anyone share effective methods or plugins to safeguard wp-admin and prevent brute force attacks? Your insights and experiences would be incredibly helpful.

Thank you for your assistance!

AlbaHost · Oct 11, 2023

Cheerag Nundlall said:
Hello everyone,

I need some advice on protecting my WordPress wp-admin area from unauthorized login attempts, particularly from bots. I'm concerned about security and want to ensure my website is safe. Can anyone share effective methods or plugins to safeguard wp-admin and prevent brute force attacks? Your insights and experiences would be incredibly helpful.

Thank you for your assistance!

Just use .htaccess with mod rewrite rule and restrict to your IP if you have static IP if not use this:

How to protect WordPress login with .htaccess

Effectively protect the administration area of your WordPress blog from hackers and brute force attacks with .htaccess directory protection.

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Or use two factor authenticator hereby:

Enable Two-Step Authentication

Your WordPress.com site is your home on the internet, and you want to keep that home safe. Hopefully, you’ve already chosen a unique and hard-to-crack password for your account. To add anothe…

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As per app/software i would recommend Authy by twilio since it has desktop/android/ios software with email/phone nr in order if you lost any of your devices.

otto levin · Sep 24, 2024

Here is a list of plugins you can use to protect your WordPress wp-admin area from unauthorized login attempts:

Wordfence Security: Live traffic monitoring, block bots, 2FA
WPS Hide Login: Changes the default URL of the login page so bots can't find it
Limit Login Attempts Reloaded: Blocks excessive login attempts and protects website against brute force attacks

cindercloud · Sep 27, 2024

I recommend Limit Login Attempts - it blocks perfectly brute force attacks, you can set login attempts number before lock-out, you can set lock-out temporarily, not to stuff up your database with banned IPs, the plugin never caused any problems to our WP installation

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