Protect Login

Changelog

1.5.0

  • Bugfix: Locking out an IP address no longer clears all other active lockouts.
  • Bugfix: Remote API list synchronisation now runs as intended (the previous check never triggered a sync); local block-/allowlist entries are no longer lost when merging with remote lists.
  • Bugfix: Remote API calls now use the correct endpoint paths, so block, allow, release and list operations work against a paired site.
  • Bugfix: Lockout times in the settings list and WP-CLI output now use the site’s configured time zone instead of always showing UTC.
  • Bugfix: Corrected the swapped “your IP has (not) changed” message on the allowlist screen.
  • Bugfix: Reverse-proxy (“client type”) handling now works as configured, and falls back to the direct connection address when no valid forwarded address is present.
  • Bugfix: Hardened against division-by-zero and undefined-value notices when retry/notification thresholds are set to 0 or no attempts have been recorded yet.
  • Bugfix: Activation and uninstall routines are now registered against the main plugin file so they run reliably.
  • Improvement: The settings override filters now work as documented.
  • Improvement: Removed an unnecessary PHP session start on every authentication and a redundant database write on every admin page load.
  • Improvement: Added Text Domain and Domain Path plugin headers and a translation template.
  • Development: Codebase migrated to new Coding Standard.

1.4.7

  • Bugfix: Fixed Bug in at-a-glance widget

1.4.6

  • Migration path of password strength rules
  • Tested with WordPress 6.8
  • Improvement: Added description texts to blocklist, allowlist and blocked-addresses list
  • Improvement: Added Copy-to-Clipboard for Remote API settings
  • Improvement: One-Click auto-generate for Remote API key

1.4.5

  • Bugfix: Error message “Invalid credentials” was displayed, when wp-login.php ist called directly or hidden by renaming of Admin Login URL

1.4.4

  • Bugfix: Fixed issue an invalid login was recognize on logging out from WP
  • Bugfix: Fixes issue error message always was “too many failed login attempts” even when it was the first trial

1.4.3

  • Bugfix: Fixed button “Add IP address to allowlist and release”
  • Bugfix: Fixed displaying setting in “At a glance widget”

1.4.2

  • Removed “Your IP address” on blocklist tab
  • Added headlines on allowlist, blocklist and blocked ip addresses
  • Removed .github dir

1.4.1

  • Bugfix: Fixed issue that prevented “Add own ip address to allowlist” from working
  • Auto re-create WP sessions on activating plugin
  • Bugfix: Fixed issue on creating session cookie on multisite

1.4.0

  • Automatically clean up the locked-out list a week after IP addresses have been cleared
  • Improve the design of empty IP lists
  • Add own IP v6 / IPv6 – Address to allowlist
  • Check for blocked IP on XML-RPC
  • Bugfix: Fixed issues that prevented the plugin from discovering that it runs on a multisite
  • Bugfix: Compatibility fixes to PHP 7.4
  • Bugfix: Removed ending slashes from Rest API namespaces

1.3.1

  • Bugfix: Improved error handling if non-numeric value is stored in wp_options
  • Cleanup: Removed leading whitespace in translation file for widget
  • Bugfix: Settings visible on multisite if name of the plugin directory is not “protect-login”
  • Bugfix: An error occurred on WP multisites with enabled WP_DEBUG, because of too early load of translation files
  • Moved “settings” sections to admin_init – action
  • WP 6.7 compatibility

1.3.0

  • Count of currently locked-out address visible in “At a glance” Widget
  • Fixed bug on activation plugin through wp-cli in a multisite environment
  • Remote API support
  • Improved multisite support

1.2.0

  • IPv6 support
  • Endpoints for WP-CLI
  • Added filter for password strength
  • “Settings” link in plugin overview
  • Bugfix: string “password too short” erroneous appeared in Quick Draft widget, removed.

1.1.1

  • Removed unused strings
  • Added translator comments
  • Restructured some strings for easier translations

1.1.0

  • Tested with WordPress 6.6
  • Added Multisite Support
  • Added filters to set protection levels programmatically
  • Fixed issue with timestamps always using UTC

1.0.1

  • Fixed minor bugs

1.0

  • Initial version
  • based on Limit Login Attempts 1.7.1 by Johan Eenfeldt

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Author
Simon Kraft
Version:
1.5.0
Last Updated
June 28, 2026
Active Installs
600
Requires
WordPress 5.7
Tested Up To
WordPress 7.0
Requires PHP
7.4

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