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New Wordpress security to stop hackers

Posted by bloggerinstitute • 6/22/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blog, blogging, blogs, Security, wordpress

I came across this today, it's called "Login Lockdown"...a really cool plugin for Wordpress blogs that stop hackers from getting into your Admin panel. I think it works really well!

Anybody tried it out yet? Or have concerns about it? I think it should be standard on the next WP release in all honesty.

www.bloggerinstitute.com/2009/06/stop-hackers-on-your-wordpress-blog/

User Comments

6/22/09

TigerXtrm

I'll have a look into that. Sounds interesting.

Thanks for pointing it out.

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6/22/09

JP2112

If you use WordPress on your own (Linux-based) domain, and have a static IP, you can do this with htaccess. Just look up your IP address and then put this in your htaccess file in your wp-admin directory.

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from your-ip-address-here

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7/22/09

kalistaneoma

agree w/JP2112 make a file in your wp-admin folder, called .htacces instead.

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8/06/09

blaineblogger

I do have concerns of wordpress security and their are stories of whole blogs being deleted but I think it's important to back up your block every week if not every day.

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