Sometimes you just want to stop those unwanted visitors knocking at the door (and trying to force entry to your WordPress blog) – here’s one way to do it
Block the ip address
create/modify your .htaccess file
order allow,deny deny from the.blocked.ip.address allow from all
simple but effective.
Only allow access from your ip address
You may want to restrict access even further.
Including this fragment in your .htaccess file will only allow access to the wp-login.php file from a specified ip address.
<Files wp-login.php>
order deny,allow
Deny from all
# whitelist Micks IP address
allow from the.required.ip.address
Add addtional permitted addresses as appropriate
Limit access to the wp-admin folder
Create, or modify, a .htaccess file in the wp-admin folder
AuthUserFile /dev/null AuthGroupFile /dev/null AuthName "WordPress Admin Access Control" AuthType Basic <LIMIT GET> order deny,allow deny from all # whitelist Mick's IP address allow from the.required.ip.address </LIMIT>
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