Title: admin login attempts.
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# admin login attempts.

 *  [macgig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macgig/)
 * (@macgig)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-login-attempts/)
 * in the last 24 hours, I’ve had 9 attempts from someone trying to login to our
   admin area. the IPs are from france, spain, italy. their trying to login to the
   default admin account (their is none I removed it). 😉
 * is their a way to block these countries from accessing the site?
 * I’m using the limit login attempts plugin.. it’s locking the IPs out after a 
   certain number of tries. just wondering what else I could do about this?
 * thanks.
 * oh, I just did #7 [here](http://www.mastermindblogger.com/2011/14-ways-to-prevent-your-wordpress-blog-from-being-hacked/).

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-login-attempts/#post-3365259)
 * you can try blocking the IPs via .htaccess
 *  Thread Starter [macgig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macgig/)
 * (@macgig)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-login-attempts/#post-3365260)
 * thanks. I’ve been doing that but I read somewhere that IP banning is a waste 
   of time, they can just get new IPs?
 * I did installed a block country plugin. so I”ll see if I’m able to stop them 
   by using this mod. 🙂
 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-login-attempts/#post-3365261)
 * > they can just get new IPs
 * true.
 * > installed a block country plugin
 * you will loose legit users from those countries too.
 *  Thread Starter [macgig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macgig/)
 * (@macgig)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-login-attempts/#post-3365265)
 * very true on losing legit users. sort of a trade off I guess. thanks for your
   feedback.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-login-attempts/#post-3365265)
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