{"id":19007638,"date":"2026-08-31T15:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/cant-activate-jetpack-brute-force\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T15:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:05:16","slug":"cant-activate-jetpack-brute-force","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/cant-activate-jetpack-brute-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t activate Jetpack Brute-Force"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019d like to (re-)enable the brute-force protection in Jetpack (free version). It was definitely enabled before. However, I\u2019m getting the following error message: \u201cError updating settings. protect: The requested Jetpack module could not be activated. (Status 400)\u201d I haven\u2019t been able to get anywhere with my web hosting provider. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this? Or is brute-force protection simply no longer included in the free plan?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many thanks!<br \/>Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19007638","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-brute-force"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19007638","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19007638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19007638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}