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<p><strong>Oriole One Master Guard</strong> is a lightweight, all-in-one security plugin for WordPress. It protects your site against brute-force login attacks, hardens common WordPress attack surfaces, and gives you full control over your security configuration from a clean admin interface — all without touching WordPress core files.</p>
<p>Whether you run a personal blog, a business site, or manage WordPress for clients, Oriole One Master Guard is designed to be straightforward to configure and effective out of the box.</p>
<h4>Who Is This For?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Site owners who want meaningful login protection without relying on a large, bloated security suite.</li>
<li>Developers who need a practical hardening toolkit with sensible defaults they can tune.</li>
<li>Agencies managing multiple WordPress installations who need reliable, low-maintenance protection.</li>
</ul>
<h4>What It Does</h4>
<p><strong>Brute-Force Login Protection</strong><br />
Limits the number of failed login attempts allowed from a given IP address or username within a configurable time window. Once the threshold is reached, the account is temporarily locked and further attempts are blocked. A replay-safe token system ensures that hitting the browser back button or refreshing after a failed attempt does not count as additional attempts.</p>
<p><strong>Security Hardening</strong><br />
A dedicated Hardening tab lets you enable or disable individual hardening features with a single checkbox. The plugin applies these protections directly using standard WordPress hooks and filters, keeping the setup simple and safe.</p>
<p>Hardening options include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Block XML-RPC requests site-wide</li>
<li>Remove the users provider from WordPress sitemaps</li>
<li>Return HTTP 404 for author archive pages and prevent username enumeration via ?author=N queries</li>
<li>Restrict the /wp-json/wp/v2/users REST endpoint to logged-in users with the list_users capability</li>
<li>Remove the WordPress version tag, RSD link, WLW manifest, oEmbed discovery links, and REST API head link</li>
<li>Add a noindex, follow meta tag to category, tag, and author archive pages</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Code Preview</strong><br />
The Code Preview tab shows the generated reference snippets that correspond to your current hardening settings. This output is read-only and provided for transparency only. The plugin does not ask administrators to paste or save arbitrary PHP, JavaScript, or CSS.</p>
<p><strong>Failed Login Audit Log</strong><br />
Every lockout is recorded in a persistent audit table showing the blocked username, IP address, geolocation country, number of attempts, and the time the block was placed and will expire. Individual entries can be removed, or the entire log can be cleared with one click.</p>
<h4>Why Choose Oriole One Master Guard?</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Focused and lightweight</strong> — does exactly what the name says with no unnecessary bulk.</li>
<li><strong>Transparent</strong> — the hardening behavior is clearly visible in the admin and not hidden in plugin internals.</li>
<li><strong>Non-destructive</strong> — uses WordPress hooks and the Settings API only; never modifies core files or theme files.</li>
<li><strong>Auditable</strong> — every lockout event is logged so you always know what happened and when.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>WordPress:</strong> 6.4 or higher</li>
<li><strong>PHP:</strong> 8.0 or higher</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>For questions, bug reports, or feature requests, please use the support forum on the plugin’s WordPress.org page. When reporting a bug, include your WordPress version, PHP version, and a description of the steps to reproduce the issue.</p>


Oriole One Master Guard

All-in-one WordPress security with brute-force protection, hardening controls, and a clear failed login audit log.

Svetoslav Marinov

orbisius

<p>This plugin logs and blocks IP address of users who try to login with known bad usernames such as admin, adm etc.<br />
The plugin intentionally hooks very early (plugins_loaded hook) in order to determine if the user should be blocked or not because that way WordPress doesn’t have to waste resources if the user is supposed to be blocked.<br />
It stores the IP address in the uploads folder (.htaccess protected) so it doesn’t hit the database for the ip checks. This may not work on some setups.</p>
<p>The user will get blocked in these cases:<br />
– Tries to login using one of the bad usernames (admin, adm, root, administrator)<br />
– Tries 7 or more ties to guess any password of any user</p>
<p>Note: If you still have an account whose username matches the logins mentioned above please create a new admin account and use that one instead<br />
..  or <em>you will get banned</em> when you attempt to login regardless if your password was valid or not.</p>
<p>When the user should be blocked the plugin outputs Internal Server Error message and stop. That way the attacked doesn’t know what’s happening.<br />
Also the user is has to wait between 3 and 15 seconds before seeing this error message to slow him/her down.</p>
<h4>Features / Benefits</h4>
<ul>
<li>Hooks very early and checks if the user is blocked -> blocks to saves resources</li>
<li>Doesn’t block server’s ip or localhost / 127.0.0.1</li>
<li>The plugin should be capable of detecting multiple IP address of a visitor (some proxies pass the original IP address via different request variable)</li>
<li>If an IP is blocked that user is not allowed to access the whole site not just the login page.</li>
<li>Extensible via hooks (filters, actions).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Demo</h3>
<p>TODO</p>
<p>Bugs? Suggestions? If you want a faster response contact us through our website’s contact form [ orbisius.com ] and not through the support tab of this plugin or WordPress forums.<br />
We don’t get notified when such requests get posted in the forums.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Support is handled on our site: <a href="http://club.orbisius.com/forums/" title="[new window]" rel="nofollow ugc">http://club.orbisius.com/forums/</a><br />
  Please do NOT use the WordPress forums or other places to seek support.</p>
</blockquote>
<h4>Author</h4>
<p>Svetoslav Marinov (Slavi) | <a href="http://orbisius.com" title="Custom Web Programming, Web Design, e-commerce, e-store, WordPress Plugin Development, Facebook and Mobile App Development in Niagara Falls, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada" rel="nofollow ugc">Custom Web and Mobile Programming by Orbisius.com</a></p>


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