Title: Problems with this plugin
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Problems with this plugin

 *  [tomdkat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomdkat/)
 * (@tomdkat)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-this-plugin/)
 * At first, I thought the plugin was great until I ran into these problems:
 * 1) I was told there were too many login attempts from my computer when I have
   NEVER entered an invalid password when logging in to my WordPress installation.
   So, I had to wait 20 mins before I could login to my own WordPress dashboard.
 * 2) Despite there being SEVERAL IP addresses logged with failed login attempts,
   the administrator e-mail account was NOT sent any messages so I had no clue the
   plugin was doing anything other than logging lockouts.
 * I’m not sure how this plugin gets the administrator account’s e-mail address 
   to dispatch notifications but it didn’t work in my WordPress installation.
 * Problem #1 is a deal breaker for me. If I’m blocked from logging in to my own
   WordPress installation due to a failed login attempt I never made, I can’t continue
   using the tool.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/limit-login-attempts/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/limit-login-attempts/)

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 *  [Andrew Bartel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrew-bartel/)
 * (@andrew-bartel)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-this-plugin/#post-3251441)
 * I use this plugin on several production environments and I’ve never had any issue
   with it whatsoever. It’s not marked as a favorite because it’s buggy.
 * 1) I’ve never encountered this. You can just reset the plugin file if you have
   to access it immediately anyway. Was your ip on the log list? Could be someone
   else on it, same office maybe?
 * 2) Mail issues are rarely related to WordPress, trust me I’ve debugged many. 
   Consider using a service like [postmark](https://postmarkapp.com/servers) for
   transactional (non-mailing list) emails. They even have a WordPress plugin.
 *  Thread Starter [tomdkat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomdkat/)
 * (@tomdkat)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-this-plugin/#post-3251442)
 * My IP was shown on the list of failed logins are reported by the “Simple Login
   Log” plugin I use. However, ALL of the “failed logins” were from my attempts 
   to login during the 20 min “countdown”. I had logged in to the same WordPress
   installation about a week ago with no problems then “suddenly”, I’m told I have
   to wait 20 mins due to too many login attempts. I’m a home user with no one else
   using my system or my network and I’m not running Windows as my primary platform.
 * After the 20 mins expired, I was able to login just fine and poke around and 
   see a list of IPs with lockouts, one of which was mine. However, I had NEVER 
   had a login problem from this IP address, so something’s wrong.
 * With regard to issue number two, I’m thinking it’s how the plugin tries to get
   the administrator e-mail address for notification. Which address does it use 
   if more than one administrator is defined? Which address does it use if there
   is not an administrator account with the default account name?
 * When I was finally able to login, I noticed the plugin recorded at least 10 different
   IPs with lockouts. NONE of them had a login id listed, most had 1 lockout recorded(
   as did my IP address), and a few had more than one lockout recorded.
 * Since uninstalling this, I’ve switched to the “Login Security Solutions” plugin
   and there I was able to specify an e-mail address to use for notifications. We’ll
   see how that works out.
 * If the plugin author gets some of the outstanding issues with this plugin fixed,
   I would give it another try. Speaking of the plugin author, they seem to be “
   MIA”. 🙂
 * Thanks!

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 * [Limit Login Attempts](https://wordpress.org/plugins/limit-login-attempts/)
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 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [tomdkat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomdkat/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-this-plugin/#post-3251442)
 * Status: not resolved