{"id":18830656,"date":"2026-02-23T11:31:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/?post_type=topic&#038;p=18830656"},"modified":"2026-02-23T11:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:54:25","slug":"bot-lock","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/bot-lock\/","title":{"rendered":"Bot Lock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every day I get the same bots trying to log in with the same username but different IP addresses. They get blocked, which is fine. Is there an option to block specific usernames by default, so they can&#8217;t even access the website in the first place?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Example:<br \/>Blocked username = Orlandoswege<br \/>Tries to log in with different IP addresses but gets blocked immediately because their username is on the blacklist, regardless of the IP address they try to use!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can something like this be implemented? Or is it already implemented, and I just haven&#8217;t noticed it? Thanks for any answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18830656","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18830656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18830656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18830689,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18830656\/revisions\/18830689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18830656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}