Title: Case sensitive?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Case sensitive?

 *  [Luigi Rosa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lrosa/)
 * (@lrosa)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/case-sensitive-4/)
 * The username check of the plugin seems to be case sensitive:
 *     ```
       IP	Tried to log in as
       89.187.97.236	Admin (1 lockout), admin (1 lockout)
       ```
   
 * Since 2.8 usernames in WordPress are case insenstive.
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## Tags

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 * Last reply from: [Luigi Rosa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lrosa/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/case-sensitive-4/)
 * Status: not resolved