Title: username blocking not working.
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# username blocking not working.

 *  Resolved [itjuggler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/itjuggler/)
 * (@itjuggler)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-blocking-not-working/)
 * Wordfence 6.0.10
 * I have configured automatic username blocking (admin,webadmin). I can see the
   failed login attempt, but the IP is not blocked.
 * [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/759696/Screen%20Shot%202015-07-10%20at%2009.05.17.png](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/759696/Screen%20Shot%202015-07-10%20at%2009.05.17.png)–
   showing the config of block users
 * [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/759696/Screen%20Shot%202015-07-10%20at%2009.04.14.png](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/759696/Screen%20Shot%202015-07-10%20at%2009.04.14.png)–
   showing failed login attempts of the `blocked’ users
 * [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/759696/Screen%20Shot%202015-07-10%20at%2009.04.32.png](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/759696/Screen%20Shot%202015-07-10%20at%2009.04.32.png)–
   display of locket out IPs
 * [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/759696/Screen%20Shot%202015-07-10%20at%2009.04.45.png](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/759696/Screen%20Shot%202015-07-10%20at%2009.04.45.png)
   0 display of blocked IPs
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  [WFSupport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfsupport/)
 * (@wfsupport)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-blocking-not-working/#post-6314076)
 * Pleases don’t double post. I’ve asked follow up questions in the other post for
   you.
 * Thanks
 * tim

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