Excellent plugin

I’ve been looking through security plugins for WordPress for a long time. You’ll find there’s plugins that purport to do a lot, and others that are more focused. In any case, you’ll find the all encompassing ones can be more of a headache if settings aren’t set quite right for your particular environment and also quite the resource hit. From my experience, targeting a few specific security tasks with smaller plugins is a better approach. Login Security Solution is one such tool in my arsenal, and I recommend it.

My only complaints are that the user error messages are sometimes confusing to end users. I also wish the plugin allowed for a seven character length password (the same as a default WordPress installation). I’ve seen the plugin author’s rationale for requiring passwords to be a minimum of 10 characters in the forums (simply put, the longer the password the more secure), but it would avoid the headaches that are induced when the default WordPress password hint (“at least 7 characters…”) is presented to users, which can and have occurred with changes to the WordPress core or conflicts with other plugins.

All in all, I definitely recommend it, because the benefit outweighs the support related issues, it works, and I haven’t found a better solution.