Customize / Increase maximum login attempts

  • Resolved Rasso Hilber

    (@nonverbla)


    6 months, 1 week ago

    Amazing work on this plugin. Thank you!!

    A client of mine keeps logging themselves out by attempting too many logins with incorrect credentials. After investigation in the source code it seems like currently it’s not possible to allow more then 5 failed attempts before blocking an IP.

    I’d like to have a way to customize this behavior:

    • either via a new setting “10”
    • or, even better, via a filter: add_filter('sgs_login_attempts', fn () => 10)

    Because allowing 10 login attempts is still better then turning the feature off completely 🙂

    Hope this feature fill be considered.

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  • Plugin Support Svetoslav Vasev

    (@svetoslavvasev)

    6 months, 1 week ago

    Hello @nonverbla ,

    Thank you for your positive feedback about the plugin, it’s much appreciated!

    You’re correct that the plugin’s interface allows you to limit the login attempts to a maximum of 5. However, you can manually change the limit by modifying the value of the option sg_security_login_attempts inside the prefix_options table of your site’s database. This can be done either via a database management tool (such as phpMyAdmin) or via WP-CLI by running the following command, where N is a positive integer:

    wp option set sg_security_login_attempts N

    This way, you can set a custom limit for the login attempts, such as 7, 10, or more/fewer.

    Best Regards,
    Svetoslav Vasev

    Thread Starter Rasso Hilber

    (@nonverbla)

    6 months, 1 week ago

    Thank you so much @svetoslavvasev for the pointer towards the relevant option! This is what I’m doing now:

    add_filter('pre_option_sg_security_login_attempts', fn () => 10);
    • This reply was modified 6 months, 1 week ago by Rasso Hilber.
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