carolsteele

All solved – it was the Easy Hide plugin which was causing the problem. Once I had disabled that via FTP, I was able to get back in via the usual login procedure.

Hi Irene,

Yes, and I am really glad I persevered. Over one 24 hour period I had almost 5000 attempts to log-in. After this I considerably tightened up security – changed my login name to some random sequence characters and introduced a very complex 30 character password.
Although I still get around 10 attempts per day, having Loginizer I can see the user-names they are trying and they are nowhere near, so I now just use the Loginizer standard values for lockout.
During the period of high intensity attacks I did change the parameters in Loginizer for locking people out to allow just one failed attempt before lockout and it was that that swiftly led to a dropdown to present levels of attempts.
You can set the recaptcha to remember you aand so login is not a problem. Another thing I did was to add another admin for the site with an equally complex username and password so that if I ever did lock myself out, I could always use the backup administrator to gain access to the backroom of the site.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by carolsteele.

Started using Loginizer a couple of weeks back on my blog and really pleased that I decided to install it.
Astonished at the number of attempts to hack into the admin section (6 pages of attempts one night) – all were successfully thwarted by Loginizer.
Because of this created a new 28 character secure password.

I have a similar problem with a date field.
The form sends me data and the date (by UK law) cannot be a date from the past, only either today’s date or a future one. It is not for an appointment or anything of that sort so I don’t think that the vCita work round would work for this.