Title: Block /author/admin
Last modified: October 12, 2016

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# Block /author/admin

 *  Resolved [Max Beta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/max-beta/)
 * (@max-beta)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/block-authoradmin/)
 * Hi
 * Under the tab Hardening there is a setting to “Block access to the pages like/?
   author=n”.
 * Is this supposed to block access to the page /author/admin ?
 * It doesn’t in my case here. I sent the page to a screen capture service and it
   still shows so it has nothing to do with my IP being accepted or something like
   that.

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 *  Plugin Author [gioni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gioni/)
 * (@gioni)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/block-authoradmin/#post-8282861)
 * Hi!
 * That blocks user enumeration. User enumeration is a method that hackers and scanners
   use to find out valid username (login). It will not block access to pages like/
   author/admin/.
 *  Thread Starter [Max Beta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/max-beta/)
 * (@max-beta)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/block-authoradmin/#post-8283282)
 * Ok, thanks, I can probably block it with robots.txt
 * I love the simplicity with WP Cerber. Other security plugins can make a grown
   man cry.
 *  Plugin Author [gioni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gioni/)
 * (@gioni)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/block-authoradmin/#post-8289998)
 * You should do that via .htaccess file by creating appropriate rewrite rules.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/block-authoradmin/#post-8289998)
 * Status: resolved