As I’ve mentioned before, the Loginizer plugin is a security plugin which aims to protect your website from hackers.
I really can’t figure out why, but there is always a set of bad guys and girls out there, who, for some inexplicable reason or the other, choose to use their talent to destroy rather than create.
Consequently, most WordPress sites get brute force attacks by robots which attempt to break into the website.
What are brute force attacks? Let’s put it into perspective.
Let’s say my username is: patrick, and my password is enter.
A brute force attack carried out on my site will enter random letters and numbers into the username and password box – sometimes as many as 1000 login attempts per second. The attempts are carefully configured to hit common words and expressions and they do work sometimes – breaking into websites after thousands or millions of silent attempts.
That’s the importance of creating strong, hard to guess usernames and passwords. That’s also the importance of using a plugin like Loginizer which will block the robot after the second or third attempt – making it almost impossible to get in.
As you can see, the Loginizer Plugin is already installed, but it is not yet Network Activated. Let’s go ahead and click “Network Activate” to network activate this wonderful WordPress Plugin.
There you go, so our Plugin is Network Activated. We now have the option of network deactivating it, but we won’t. What’s next?
Once the Loginizer Plugin has been network activated, it will immediately go to work protecting our site. It usually comes with its own settings, but we need to make sure these settings are OK for tastes.
It’s time to go back to our Main Site’s Dashboard and do some configuration of the Loginizer Plugin.
See you in the next lesson: Loginizer Settings.
