[Hidden-tech] WordPress security question

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 14 Jan 2016 11:19:54 -0500 Shel Horowitz <shel at principledprofit.com> wrote:

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> A client's site was compromised recently. I changed the password to
> something impossible to guess--but I'm wondering if:
> 1) There's a way to change the username in wp-admin

You can't *change* the username, but you can create a new one and delete the 
old one -- this has much the same effect.

> 2) It's possible to block domains or country codes of attackers trying to
> sign in (most of them seem to be from France)
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If you have shell access, you can put <Limit ...>...</Limit> directives in 
the site's .htaccess file.  (Assumes Apache).

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