Title: Automatic IP Blocking – Admin
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Automatic IP Blocking – Admin

 *  [freshandfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freshandfly/)
 * (@freshandfly)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-ip-blocking-admin/)
 * On the free version it allowed me to select something along the lines of “if 
   a visitor tries to login as Admin more than X amount of times” – blacklist them
   and set the rules for this.
 * But I can’t find the option on the Pro version – does it simply blacklist all
   bad logins after a specified number of attempts?
 * How do I configure this, in particular visitors trying to login with Admin?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/)

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 *  Thread Starter [freshandfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freshandfly/)
 * (@freshandfly)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-ip-blocking-admin/#post-5936673)
 * I guess what I mean is – what actually constitutes a bad login – does the Free
   version only count someone logging in as “Admin”, but pro counts any incorrect
   login?
 *  [dwinden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwinden/)
 * (@dwinden)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-ip-blocking-admin/#post-5936851)
 * No, I think you are searching in the wrong direction.
 * I think the functionality you are referring to in the free iTSec plugin is the
   following “Brute Force Protection” checkbox on the Settings page:
 * >  Automatically ban “admin” user [ ] Immediately ban a host that attempts to
   > login using the “admin” username.
 * This checkbox will only be displayed when you tick the “Enable local brute force
   protection” checkbox.
 * Not sure (since I’m not using iTSec Pro) but I expect this option is also available
   in the iTSec Pro plugin.
 * dwinden

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-ip-blocking-admin/#post-5936851)
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