Authorizer vs Sessions

Authorizer restricts access to a WordPress site to specific users, typically students enrolled in a university course. It maintains a list of approved users that you can edit to determine who has access. It also replaces the default WordPress login/authorization system with one relying on an external server, such as Google, CAS, LDAP, or an OAuth2 provider. Finally, Authorizer lets you limit invalid login attempts to prevent bots from compromising your users’ accounts. View or contribute to the plugin source on GitHub: https://github.com/uhm-coe/authorizer Authorizer requires the following: CAS server (2.x, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, or 7.x) or LDAP server (plugin needs the URL) PHP extensions: php-ldap, php-curl, php-dom Authorizer provides the following options: Authentication: WordPress accounts; Google accounts; CAS accounts; LDAP accounts; OAuth2 accounts Login Access: All authenticated users (all local and all external can log in); Only specific users (all local and approved external users can log in) View Access: Everyone (open access); Only logged in users Limit Login Attempts: Progressively increase the amount of time required between invalid login attempts. Shortcode: Use the [authorizer_login_form] shortcode to embed a wp_login_form() outside of wp-login.php.

Sessions is a powerful sessions manager for WordPress with a multi-criteria sessions limiter and full analytics reporting about logins, logouts and account creation. It relies on the standard WordPress sessions manager and add it extra features and controls. You can limit concurrent sessions, on a per role basis for the following criteria: count per user; count per IP adresses; count per country (requires the free IP Locator plugin); count per device classes and types, client types, browser or OS (requires the free Device Detector plugin). For each roles defined on your site, you can also block login based on private/public IP ranges, and define idle times for sessions auto-termination. You can also set a maximum number of IPs used for each user – useful to limit credential sharing between many people. Sessions can report the following main items and metrics: KPIs: login success, active sessions, cleaned sessions, active users, turnover and spam sessions; active and cleaned sessions details; users and sessions variations; moves distribution; login/logout breakdowns; password resets; Sessions supports a set of WP-CLI commands to: manage WordPress active sessions (list, kill) – see wp help sessions active for details; toggle on/off main settings – see wp help sessions settings for details; modify operations mode – see wp help sessions mode for details; display sessions and accounts statistics – see wp help sessions analytics for details. For a full help on WP-CLI commands in Sessions, please read this guide. Sessions is part of PerfOps One, a suite of free and open source WordPress plugins dedicated to observability and operations performance. Sessions is a free and open source plugin for WordPress. It integrates many other free and open source works (as-is or modified). Please, see ‘about’ tab in the plugin settings to see the details. Support This plugin is free and provided without warranty of any kind. Use it at your own risk, I’m not responsible for any improper use of this plugin, nor for any damage it might cause to your site. Always backup all your data before installing a new plugin. Anyway, I’ll be glad to help you if you encounter issues when using this plugin. Please read carefully the FAQ at the bottom of this page before requesting support. Privacy This plugin, as any piece of software, is neither compliant nor non-compliant with privacy laws and regulations. It is your responsibility to use it – by activating the corresponding options or services – with respect for the personal data of your users and applicable laws. This plugin doesn’t set any cookie in the user’s browser. This plugin may handle personally identifiable information (PII). If the GDPR or CCPA or similar regulation applies to your case, you must adapt your processes (consent management, security measure, treatment register, etc.). Donation If you like this plugin or find it useful and want to thank me for the work done, please consider making a donation to La Quadrature Du Net or the Electronic Frontier Foundation which are advocacy groups defending the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet. By supporting them, you help the daily actions they perform to defend our fundamental freedoms!