Fix for this plugin on WPEngine

Posting this in case it helps someone else or in case it rings any bells with Ian.

When running this plugin on the “WP Engine” host, I got an error page after submitting the auth digits.

The WPE logs were showing “preventing possible attempt to enumerate users”.
So I found where this was coming from: their wpengine-common plugin.

To get rid of that check, I added this snippet to my theme’s functions.php:

add_action( 'init', 'remove_wpengine_crap' );
function remove_wpengine_crap(){
	remove_action( 'parse_request', 'wpesec_prevent_user_enumeration');
}

As it turned out, that didn’t work. I had to chat with a (very helpful) WPE technician, who further tracked down this issue to a “login protection” feature on their end. Disabling it fixed the issue.

• This topic was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by Manuel Razzari.