A few months ago, I posted an article explaining how to lock your administration area down so that only specific IP addresses or IP ranges can login to your WordPress system. Recently, I came across one minor unexpected side effect of this security method: Password-protected posts and pages no longer work as expected. Since the […]
Quick Tip: Restricting Access to WordPress Logins
August 6, 2014 by 4 Comments
As you’ve most likely noticed over the past few weeks/months, there are a lot of brute force attack attempts happening pretty regularly. Bots are trying over and over again to login to just about any WordPress site, using any credentials they can come up with. While there are many ways to combat this, one of […]