Simple Login Guard – Monitor & Block Attempts

Simple Login Guard is a lightweight login security plugin designed to protect your WordPress website from brute-force attacks.
It monitors every login attempt, logs failed and successful logins, tracks suspicious behavior, and automatically blocks IP addresses that exceed your configured threshold — keeping your site safe without slowing it down.

No confusing settings. No bulky security suite.
Just simple, effective login protection.

🔐 Key Features

Monitor Failed & Successful Login Attempts
– Logs every attempt with username, IP, timestamp, and status.

Automatic IP Blocking
– Block IPs that exceed a defined number of failed attempts within a time window.

Customizable Security Rules
– Failed attempts threshold
– Lockout duration
– Time window for counting attempts
– Retention period for logs

Manual Block / Unblock IPs
– Block or unblock IP addresses from the admin dashboard.

Lightweight and Fast
– Uses optimized database queries and caching to avoid performance issues.

Safe Logging Table
– Creates a separate database table for login attempts, leaving core tables untouched.

📊 Admin Dashboard

The plugin includes an easy-to-use interface under:

Tools → Simple Login Guard

Sections include:

• Settings
• Blocked IPs List

1. Upload simple-login-guard to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins → Installed Plugins page
3. Navigate to Tools → Simple Login Guard to configure your security settings

The plugin immediately begins tracking and protecting your login page.

1. 

   Settings page – configure thresholds and durations

2. 

   List of blocked IPs will show up here.

3. 

   Login attempt blocking

1.0.1

• Initial release

1.0.2

• Compatibility checks for 6.9