<p>Comment blacklisting works well, but what if you actually want to stop someone from even <em>reading</em> your blog? This plugin will take care of that for you.</p>
<p>It uses .htaccess file modifications to deny access to your blog from particular IP addresses (Deny from) and then follows up with an ErrorDocument 403 redirect to a URL of your choice. It doesn’t hook into WordPress, which makes it a lot faster due to no database or PHP calls.</p>


WP-BlockYou

A plugin that can be used to block or "ban" users via their IP address from viewing your blog, and then redirecting them to a URL of your ch …

Tony Archambeau

<p>A lot of brute-force attacks are performed on WordPress websites without you probably noticed it. These attacks are performed by computer programs and consists to try every possible password until to find the correct one. If you use a popular password such as “123456” or “qwerty” it’s very easy to access your website through a brute force attack.</p>
<p>Login Security is a plugin that tries to protect you against such attacks. Every successful or failed login attempts are recorded. You will probably discover that a lot of brute force attacks are performed on your website. This plugin can tell you how many times an IP address tried to access to the Back-Office of your WordPress website. Then you can easily block the access of this IP address in just “one click”.</p>
<p>On the tested websites there was an average of over 800 login attempts per day.</p>
<h4>Current features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Records every login attempts (failed or successful). Can be used to tell you when a user login</li>
<li>Display all the failed login or successful login with the associated IP, User-Agent and HTTP referer</li>
<li>Stats over the number of failed login during last 7 days and last 12 months</li>
<li>Discover which IP address tries the most to access your website</li>
<li>Banned an IP address</li>
<li>Multi languages : English, French (from : France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg)</li>
</ul>
<p>Want a WordPress developper? Want to add a translation? Feel free to <a href="http://en.tonyarchambeau.com/contact.html" rel="nofollow ugc">contact me</a>.</p>
<h3>How to uninstall Login Security</h3>
<p>To uninstall this plugin, you just have to de-activate the plugin from the plugins list.</p>


Login Security

Improves the security of the login page against brute-force attacks. Records every attempts to login.…

WP-BlockYou vs Login Security