Simple Login Notification

Description

Activate this plugin to send an email when any admin-level user logs in to your site. This is useful for keeping an eye on any unauthorized administrator logins. Each email alert includes the user name, IP address, user agent, and other details. Just in case you need to do some forensic investigation.

Features

• Send email to any user role or email address
• Exclude email notifications for any IP address
• Provides detailed information about each admin login
• Provides option to exclude/whitelist any IP addresses
• Lightweight and fast – total plugin size around 70 KB
• Simple to use – activate and done, just works
• No permanent changes are made to anything
• No settings or anything to worry about
• Easy peasy mac and cheesy

Why is this useful?

I use this plugin to keep an eye on any unauthorized login attempts. Probably a bit paranoid but I don’t care, paranoid works well for me.

How is this plugin different?

While researching for this plugin, I found four other “admin login notification” type plugins:

• Email Notification on Login
• Email notification on admin login
• Kaya Login Notification
• KolorWeb Access Admin Notification

Unfortunately none of these plugins suited my specific needs:

• Lightweight, clean and simple
• Current with latest WordPress
• No requirement for PHP sessions

So I decided to build my own. Let me emphasize the utter simplicity of this plugin. It does one thing and does it well: sends an email whenever an admin-level user logs in to WordPress. No bells and whistles, no bloat. If you need more functionality, check out the above plugins should get you there.

Privacy

This plugin does not collect or store any user data. It does not set any cookies, and it does not connect to any third-party locations. The only thing this plugin does is send an email for each admin-level login. Each email includes information about the user, such as username, IP address, user agent, and other details.

Simple Login Notification is developed and maintained by Jeff Starr, 15-year WordPress developer and book author.

Installation

Installing the plugin

Activate like any other plugin and done. There are no settings, works automatically.

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Using the plugin

Activate and done. The plugin requires nothing else to work its magic.

Exclude IP address

If you want to exclude an IP address from email alerts, visit the plugin settings > “Exclude IPs”. So if you don’t want to get an email every time you log in, add your IP address to this setting. You can use a free online tool to get your current IP address. If you are unsure, leave this setting blank.

To add an IP address to the “Exclude IPs” setting, you can use any of the following notations:

• Individual IP address, like 93.184.216.34
• Sequential range of IP addresses, like 93.184.
• CIDR range of IP addresses, like 93.184.216.34/24

Important: Separate multiple IP/strings with commas.

Uninstalling

To uninstall/remove the plugin, visit the Plugins screen, deactivate and delete the plugin. This plugin makes no changes to the WP database.

FAQ

Got a question?

Send any questions or feedback via my contact form

Reviews

Excellent, fast and very useful. And that’s just the developer.

httpscore June 10, 2024 1 reply

Great little plugin. Simple UI and great functionality. Can you implement an option to use the login name in the subject of the email?

Easy to Use, Great Security and Reliable

born2excite November 5, 2023

This plugin is very light with virtually zero impact on performance. Provides peace of mind by alerting you if someone logs in to your site and best of all, the developer is a professional web developer specialising in Web Security and maintains the plugin regularly.

Fantastic plugin that helps with security

Dale Reardon July 15, 2023

Terrific plugin that works really well. I love how you have added the ability to email additional emails as well. Great security enhancement to know when admins login. Highly recommended.

Perfection

studioluminous May 19, 2023

Simple, light and straight forward. Couldn’t imagine it any better!

A minimalistic and fast plugin

sergeyf1 January 16, 2023

Thanks for this plugin. It fulfills its function and does exactly what it says in the description of the plugin. No unnecessary settings, no ads, and no cluttered interface. I love the plugins from Jeff Starr.

Simple and blazing fast

Pierre LeBaux November 4, 2022 2 replies

Does what it says on the label and nothing else. I think I would also appreciate the editor login notification checkbox, but I 100% understand why that could be considered bloat.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

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1.9 (2024/10/14)

• Adds option to not send alerts to admin email address
• Improves add_settings function
• Updates plugin settings page
• Updates default translation template
• Tests on WordPress 6.7 (beta)

Full changelog @ https://plugin-planet.com/wp/changelog/simple-login-notification.txt