Description

Login Watchdog is one of the several NutsForPress plugins providing some essential features that WordPress does not offer itself or offers only partially.

Login Watchdog include these very useful functions for your every-day secure and protection of your WordPress website:

Two Factors Authentication for administrators: after a successful login every administrator is asked to enter a validation code sent by email. You can also set an option to skip two factors authentication until IP does not change, which is extremely useful for administrators they need to login frequently from the same IP
Login Attempts Monitor: checks login attempts and blocks (temporarily or permanently) failed login attempts exceeding the limits defined
Daily Check Notification: sends a notification when a difference is found between your site WordPress core php or js files and the original ones of a clean setup
Security Notification: sends a notification on administrator successful login, on change of role, on plugin activation, on administrator delete and on user temporary or permanent lock down
Disable XML-RPC: disables XML-RPC protocol to prevent brute force attacks
Disable Author Page: hides author archive page and hides user info via API REST, so that none can know the author name by his ID
Custom Login Errors: displays custom login errors instead of WordPress default

Take a look at the others NutsForPress Plugins

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well

Translations

English: default language
Italian: entirely translated

Credits

Very many thanks to DkR and SviluppoEuropa!

Installation

Installation From Plugin Repository

Into your WordPress plugin section, press “Add New”
Use “NutsForPress” as search term
Click on Install Now on NutsForPress Login Watchdog into result page, then click on Activate
Setup “NutsForPress Login Watchdog” options by clicking on the link you find under the “NutsForPress” menu
Enjoy!

Manual Installation

Download NutsForPress Login Watchdog from https://wordpress.org/plugins/nutsforpress
Into your WordPress plugin section, press “Add New” then press “Load Plugin”
Choose nutsforpress-smtp-mail.zip file from your local download folder
Press “Install Now”
Activate NutsForPress Login Watchdog
Setup “NutsForPress Login Watchdog” options by clicking on the link you find under the “NutsForPress” menu
Enjoy!

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Contributors & Developers

“NutsForPress Login Watchdog” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Christian Gatti

“NutsForPress Login Watchdog” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “NutsForPress Login Watchdog” into your language.

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Changelog

1.7.6

Now the user delete notification is sent only on delete of a user with administrative roles (otherwise too much notifications are sent)
Few bugs fixed
Tested up to WordPress 6.2

1.7.5

Fixed a bug that caused the core integrity check to be performed more than once a day on websites with WP Rocket or other caching plugins

1.7.4

Now the login notification is sent only on successful login of a user with administrative roles (otherwise too much notifications are sent)

1.7.3

Fixed a bug that caused the error “The provided code is not valid” to be displayed when a non existent user tried to login

1.7.2

Fixed a bug that caused the themes folder and the plugin folder to be included into daily check, returning false positives

1.7.1

Fixed a bug that caused the daily check notification to not be launched on some conditions
Addeed a filter to exclude from the daily check the themes and the plugins folder files (plugins and themes can be updated regardless of the WordPress version)

1.7

Now you can get notified when a difference is found between your site WordPress core php or js files and the original ones of a clean setup
Fixed a bug that caused the login notification to be sent before the two-factor authentication was completed
Raised to ten minutes the maximum time to complete the two-factor authentication

1.6

Now you can get a notification on plugin activation

1.5

Now you can set an option to skip two factors authentication until IP does not change
Local italian translations added (the ones from https://translate.wordpress.org/ are still pending)

1.4

A very useful two factor authentication for administrators has been implemented

1.3

Now translations are provided by translate.wordpress.org, instead of being locally provided: please contribute!

1.2.2

Fixed a bug that displayed some option messages that should have been kept hidden by a css rule miswritten by an escape rule

1.2.1

Fixed a bug that caused to some urls contained into some descriptions in the plugin options were showed as html code, instead of clickable urls

1.2

New root version, in order to welcome a new NutsForPress plugin
Security improved by escaping echoed variables

1.1.1

Fixed a bug that produced a warning into logs
Now the function that hides author archive pages redirects to the homepage only if pages are called through URL parameter (for example: ?author=1)

1.1

Fixed a bug that prevented from saving local options when WPML is not active

1.0

First full working release