Title: plugin deactivated itself
Last modified: February 1, 2017

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# plugin deactivated itself

 *  Resolved [esp2013](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esp2013/)
 * (@esp2013)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-deactivated-itself/)
 * Hi, I installed this plugin because of all the brute force attacks my website
   was getting. I use Wordfence security. I hid my wp-login.php page and gave it
   a new name. Then I set my Wordfence oprions to lock out anyone attempting to 
   access wp-login.php. All worked really well until today when I went to update
   2 plugins that Wordfence notified were in need – not WPS Hide Login – but when
   I attempted to login I got “page not found” trying some backwards attempts I 
   was locked out of my own site by Wordfence so I had to get them to unlock all
   so I could get in. I discovered that WPS Hide Login was deactivated. I had not
   been in the backend for a few days and all was fine then. I checked the traffic
   logs and no one else had been in either. The only conclusion is that something
   caused the plugin to deactivate. The only plugin that self-updates is Wordfence
   and it had updated so I’m guessing that this had something to do with it. Is 
   this a known thing? I’m afraid to set options to lock out attempts to access 
   wp-login.php now in case it happens again – this is a problem because the hackers
   are really after this site for some reason (what’s up with that anyway?)
    -  This topic was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by [esp2013](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esp2013/).

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 * Last reply from: [esp2013](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esp2013/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-deactivated-itself/)
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