Title: automatically block 'admin'?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# automatically block 'admin'?

 *  Resolved [catwingz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catwingz/)
 * (@catwingz)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-block-admin/)
 * I love this plugin. What would make it even better is if there were a way to 
   automatically block attempts to login with common names like ‘admin.’ Is there?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Mark Maunder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmaunder/)
 * (@mmaunder)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-block-admin/#post-4709419)
 * Yes, you can check the box on the Wordfence options page to immediately block
   invalid usernames.
 * Regards,
 * Mark.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-block-admin/#post-4709419)
 * Status: resolved