Couple of days back, my friend Kim Woodbridge had written an interesting post on Wordpress Login Security which made me think about the Wordpress plugins available exclusively for Login. So, find below the list of plugins based on Wordpress login.
Top 10 Wordpress Plugins for Login
1. BM Custom Login – Binary Moon’s Custom login is a simple way to customise the login screen on your wordpress install. The plugin also includes a psd template for creating your own login screens so it couldn’t be easier.
2. AJAX Login – Wordpress plugin to use AJAX powered login page. AJAX Login means that the login process is executed without reloading the entire page.
3. Login LockDown – Login LockDown records the IP address and timestamp of every failed WordPress login attempt. If more than a certain number of attempts are detected within a short period of time from the same IP range, then the login function is disabled for all requests from that range. This helps to prevent brute force password discovery.
4. WP Email Login – Lets you use your email address to log into your WordPress account instead of a username. Since email addresses are required to be unique within WordPress anyway, they also make good identifiers for logging in.
5. Force User Login – This is a very small plugin that forces users to login before viewing any content. This is done by checking if the user is logged in, and if not, redirecting them to the login page. Users attempting to view blog content via RSS are also authenticated via HTTP Auth.
6. WP-OpenID – This plugin allows users to login to their local WordPress account using an OpenID, as well as enabling commenters to leave authenticated comments with OpenID. The plugin also includes an OpenID provider, enabling users to login to OpenID-enabled sites using their own personal WordPress account.
7. Members Only – Members Only is a WordPress plugin that allows you to make your blog only viewable to visitors that are logged in. If a visitor is not logged in, they will be redirected either to the WordPress login page or a page of your choice.
8. MiniMeta Widget – Wordpress plugin to add logon boxes to the meta links information.
9. Restrict Login By IP – This plugin lets you specify IP addresses or hosts that users are allowed to login from. You can either use full IPs (e.g. “12.34.56.7″) or partial IPs (e.g. “12.34″), which lets you specify a range of addresses.
10. WordPress Noindex Login Plugin – If your WordPress blog has a public login page, you probably don’t want it to be indexed by search engines. So this plugin adds the noindex meta tag to your WordPress Login page.
Please note that I am no way endorsing any of these Wordpress plugins. Personally I have used Login Lockdown which is a nice plugin.
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April 18th, 2009 at 1:33 am
Hi! Thanks for the mention. And what a great list – even though you aren’t endorsing them there are a couple I want to try out.
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April 18th, 2009 at 2:22 am
I have to agree that Login Lockdown is a light but very handy plugin to prevent any brute force attacks. Over a period of a month plus after installation, the plugin has caught a couple of IPs trying to break into the admin area. Of course, other better ways include changing the default username of ‘admin’ to something else, but Login Lockdown is a simple plug-and-play plugin with no customizations needed
Oh and I think the Members Only plugin is very useful for sites who want to limit access to their blog entries.
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April 18th, 2009 at 2:31 am
thanks for the excellent post. i’m going to look into implementing some of these on my blog. I think it’s important to encourage people to create accounts on your blog, and I hardly ever see it.
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April 18th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Login LockDown would be really cool if the IP location and the ISP is recorded.
April 19th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
I love Ajax anything, and the IP-restriction type plugins seem like they would be great, at least for a single-user blog. However, login lockdown looks like it’d work well for multi-user blogs.
On some of my sites, I run something similar (I think) to the login lockdown, basically if I have too many hits from the same IP address within a predetermined amount of time, the user is directed to a 503 error page for a 5 minutes after their last attempt.
Wordpress is great — there are so many different plugins available that do variations of the same thing — it gives us a lot of choices on how to setup, and secure, our blogs.
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April 20th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Login lockdown is a one of the most important plugins under security category.
Thanks for the rest of the plugins.
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April 21st, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Though I don’t use any of these..but number 10 seems to be useful.
but I prefer using robots.txt file to block indexing of my admin and login directory
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April 23rd, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Wow, there are a few that I have not seen before.
I will have to read more about them and see which ones I can implement on my blog. Thanks for sharing.
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April 23rd, 2009 at 7:04 pm
@George,
Am glad you liked it! Do let me know if you implement any.
July 23rd, 2009 at 7:45 am
I like the “BM Custom Login”. It saves me lot of time to and I’m using it for my future project. This plugin really handy for branding purpose. Thanks for sharing.
December 24th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Great list thank you very much.
January 31st, 2010 at 10:01 am
wordpress plug-in from the indispensable, thank you
February 9th, 2010 at 1:53 pm