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How to Protect WordPress From Brute Force Attacks (9 Ways)
A brute force attack is a bot trying thousands of username and password combinations against your WordPress login until one works. Every WordPress site gets them, usually within hours of going live, and they cause two problems: a weak password eventually gets guessed, and the flood of login requests can take a shared-hosting site offline.…
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Still Using admin as Your WordPress Username? Here Is How to Change It
Is your WordPress username “admin”? Then hackers already know half of your login. Bots constantly try to log in to WordPress sites with common usernames like admin, administrator, and the site name. This is called a brute force attack. Changing your username to something unique makes these attacks much harder. WordPress does not let you…