Protect WordPress Logins

Your Minder - Wordpress Single Logins

As WordPress gets more and more used for non-blog type roles there becomes a greater need to protect your security and content privacy.

Unfortunately WordPress out of the box makes it easy for multiple people to share one login.

This isn’t so bad when you share a login between authors, although a better idea would be to give each author their own login and only the permissions they require.

The problem comes when the login is provided to gain access to paid and premium content or when the WordPress install is for private and confidential information, for example a company extranet.

Luckily a plugin has been created to help with these issues, restricting one account to a single login session and booting off anyone found to be sharing accounts.

The product is called Your Minder and is from the same people as the membership plugin previously reviewed.

Your Minder - Wordpress Single Logins - Wordpress Specialists

Features

  • Flexible Logic system allowing you to specify the number of IP address able to access the same user account within a given period
  • Chose between Soft or Hard Lockouts
  • Soft Lockouts - log both parties out and redirect the user to a page of the admin choice
  • Hard Lockouts - Logs both parties out and prevents re access until certain conditions are met
  • Timed Lockouts - If using the hard lockout options a time delay can be placed before the user is allowed to login again.
  • Email Re-activation - Using Hard Lock out the lock can remain in place until the user reactivates the account via a link sent to the email of the account holder.
  • Wordpress MU 2.6 support!

I think well worth the $15 charge. Check out the plugin page for more details.

Posted on August 19, 2008 by Chris Garrett 
Filed Under Software Tools

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