acsnaterse

<p>This WordPress plugin blocks, by default, login attempts for the “admin” user. Because bots and hackers use automated login attempts on WordPress websites, specifically using the “admin” username, it’s a good practice to never use this username. This plugin will block all login attempts that try to use this username.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Block “admin” user only</li>
<li>Block every user, but the usernames in your website.</li>
<li>Choose the URL you want to blocked users to be redirected to. We will <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" rel="nofollow ugc">Rickroll</a> them by default. Of course.</li>
</ul>


Block user logins

Blocks every login attempt for the "admin" user, or every user, but the users in your install.

David Cramer

<p>Caldera SMTP Mailer is not groundbreaking in any way. There are many SMTP plugins around some good some not so good. This is just to take away all the mystery with a to-the-point solution for configuring wp_mail ( and in turn phpmailer ) to send through SMTP over standard phpmail.</p>


Caldera SMTP Mailer

Just what I needed to test on my local machine where php_mailer fails

Block user logins vs Caldera SMTP Mailer