Htaccess by BestWebSoft – WordPress Website Access Control Plugin vs Loginizer

Htaccess plugin is a simple and useful tool which helps to control the access to your WordPress website. Allow or deny access based on a hostname, IP address, IP range, and others. Disable hotlinking and access to xmlrpc.php. Easily secure your WordPress website! View Demo Free Features Set the order fields: Allow, Deny Deny, Allow Set the argument info to the directive form: Allow Deny Customize .htaccess file Create a backup with the ability to restore .htaccess file Block by domain and by User Agent Compatible with latest WordPress version Incredibly simple settings for fast setup without modifying code Detailed step-by-step documentation and videos Multilingual and RTL ready Limit access to wp-admin by IP (one IP) Pro Features All features from Free version included plus: Set the access to the xmlrpc.php: Access deny Redirect to the main page Enable/disable hotlinking Block domain with .htaccess file Separate file for blocked and allowed ips Allow hotlinking based on hostnames Configure all subsites on the network Limit access to wp-admin by IP (many IP) Get answer to your support question within one business day (Support Policy) Upgrade to Pro Now If you have a feature suggestion or idea you’d like to see in the plugin, we’d love to hear about it! Suggest a Feature Documentation & Videos [Doc] User Guide [Doc] Installation [Doc] Purchase [Video] Installation Instruction Help & Support Visit our Help Center if you have any questions, our friendly Support Team is happy to help — https://support.bestwebsoft.com/ Translation Polish (pl_PL) (thanks to Damian Dąbrowski) Russian (ru_RU) Ukrainian (uk) Some of these translations are not complete. We are constantly adding new features which should be translated. If you would like to create your own language pack or update the existing one, you can send the text of PO and MO files to BestWebSoft and we’ll add it to the plugin. You can download the latest version of the program for work with PO and MO files Poedit. Recommended Plugins Updater – Automatically check and update WordPress website core with all installed plugins and themes to the latest versions. Limit Attempts – Protect WordPress website against brute force attacks. Limit rate of login attempts.

Loginizer is a WordPress plugin which helps you fight against bruteforce attack by blocking login for the IP after it reaches maximum retries allowed. You can blacklist or whitelist IPs for login using Loginizer. You can use various other features like Two Factor Auth, reCAPTCHA, PasswordLess Login, etc. to improve security of your website. Loginizer is actively used by more than 1000000+ WordPress websites. You can find our official documentation at https://loginizer.com/docs. We are also active in our community support forums on wordpress.org if you are one of our free users. Our Premium Support Ticket System is at https://loginizer.deskuss.com Free Features : Brute force protection. IPs trying to brute force your website will be blocked for 15 minutes after 3 failed login attempts. After multiple lockouts the IP is blocked for 24 hours. This is the default configuration and can be changed from Loginizer -> Brute force page in WordPress admin panel. Failed login attempts logs. Blacklist IPs Whitelist IPs Custom error messages on failed login. Permission check for important files and folders. Allow only Trusted IP. Blocked Screen in place of the Login page. Email Notification on successful login. Let users login with LinkedIn Get Support and Pro Features Get professional support from our experts and pro features to take your site’s security to the next level with Loginizer-Security. Pro Features : MD5 Checksum – of Core WordPress Files. The admin can check and ignore files as well. PasswordLess Login – At the time of Login, the username / email address will be asked and an email will be sent to the email address of that account with a temporary link to login. Two Factor Auth via Email – On login, an email will be sent to the email address of that account with a temporary 6 digit code to complete the login. Two Factor Auth via App – The user can configure the account with a 2FA App like Google Authenticator, Authy, etc. Login Challenge Question – The user can setup a Challenge Question and Answer as an additional security layer. After Login, the user will need to answer the question to complete the login. reCAPTCHA – Google’s reCAPTCHA v3/v2, Cloudflare Turnstile, hCAPTCHA can be configured for the Login screen, Comments Section, Registration Form, etc. to prevent automated brute force attacks. Supports WooCommerce as well. Rename Login Page – The Admin can rename the login URL (slug) to something different from wp-login.php to prevent automated brute force attacks. Rename WP-Admin URL – The Admin area in WordPress is accessed via wp-admin. With loginizer you can change it to anything e.g. site-admin CSRF Protection – This helps in preventing CSRF attacks as it updates the admin URL with a session string which makes it difficult and nearly impossible for the attacker to predict the URL. Rename Login with Secrecy – If set, then all Login URL’s will still point to wp-login.php and users will have to access the New Login Slug by typing it in the browser. Disable XML-RPC – An option to simply disable XML-RPC in WordPress. Most of the WordPress users don’t need XML-RPC and can disable it to prevent automated brute force attacks. Rename XML-RPC – The Admin can rename the XML-RPC to something different from xmlrpc.php to prevent automated brute force attacks. Username Auto Blacklist – Attackers generally use common usernames like admin, administrator, or variations of your domain name / business name. You can specify such username here and Loginizer will auto-blacklist the IP Address(s) of clients who try to use such username(s). New Registration Domain Blacklist – If you would like to ban new registrations from a particular domain, you can use this utility to do so. Change the Admin Username – The Admin can rename the admin username to something more difficult. Auto Blacklist IPs – IPs will be auto blacklisted, if certain usernames saved by the Admin are used to login by malicious bots / users. Disable Pingbacks – Simple way to disable PingBacks. SSO – Single Sign-on, let any user access to your WordPress Dashboard without the need to share username or password. Limit Concurrent Logins – It prevents user to login from different devices concurrently, you can define how many devices you want to allow, and how you want to restrict the user when concurrent limit is reached. Social Login – Users can login or register with their Google, Github, Facebook, X (Twitter), Discord, Twitch, LinkedIn, Microsoft with support for WooCommerce and Ultimate Member. Key Less Social Login – Use Loginizer’s Social Auth for easy key less Social login configuration, now supports Google, GitHub, X, LinkedIn more to be added later Country Blocking – Block IPs from specific countries to restrict access to your website. User enumeration – Helps prevent attackers from knowing usernames, by blocking unauthenticated access to common username list/access paths. Features in Loginizer include: Blocks IP after maximum retries allowed Extended Lockout after maximum lockouts allowed Email notification to admin after max lockouts Blacklist IP/IP range Whitelist IP/IP range Check logs of failed attempts Create IP ranges Delete IP ranges Licensed under LGPLv2.1 Safe & Secure