How do I reduce the nmaximum number of sign-in attemopts

  • billydennis123

    (@billydennis123)


    10 years ago

    I got the following email:

    This email was sent from your website "The New Blog Peoria Project" by the Wordfence plugin at Wednesday 29th of October 2014 at 11:02:20 PM
The Wordfence administrative URL for this site is: https://blogpeoria.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=Wordfence

A user with IP address 193.201.224.4 has been locked out from the signing in or using the password recovery form for the following reason: Exceeded the maximum number of login failures which is: 20. The last username they tried to sign in with was: 'blogpeoria'
User IP: 193.201.224.4

    How do I reduce the number of allowable sign-in attempts from 20 to say, five?

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  • Ismail

    (@elhardoum)

    these are actually robots, not humans.
    you can get rid of them by adding a captcha or quiz in your logging form
    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/
    for me, i just logged in and clicked remember me since i use same laptop, and then made a 301 redirect from my server..

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Captcha is not user friendly, just FYI.

    How do I reduce the number of allowable sign-in attempts from 20 to say, five?

    In WordFence, go to the OPTIONS page and you should be able to configure that.

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