To release the lockouts please visit the lockouts page.

@russelcunning

The lockout email does need rewording.
There is no such thing as a lockouts page.
Allthough the link included in the lockout email does redirect to the correct Settings page (in 5.4.x or higher release).

You need to scroll down on the plugin Settings page till the Active Lockouts widget gets displayed in the sidebar (on the right side of your screen).
iThemes very conveniently positioned the Malware Scan and Active Lockouts widgets between some ads.

Nothing a few good code lines in the active theme functions.php file won’t fix ?? No ads and only the Malware Scan and Active Lockouts widgets get displayed without having to scroll down.

dwinden

Hi Dwinden,

Many thanks for that. Overall I’m happy with i-Themes, but I’m reluctant to spend money buying the Pro version if the demo (free version) doesn’t work properly. The free version is there to tempt us to pay for a version with more features, not to upgrade from a version with bugs.

Cheers,
Russell

@russellcunning

It does work properly. At least the 2 things we are discussing…

The link in the lockout email will take you to the page with the Active Lockouts widget in the sidebar. It’s only the ‘the lockouts page’ text in the email that needs to be updated in order for folks to be able to find the feature.
Some simple html formatting in the email would be nice too.

And as stated in the other topic traceip.net is functional again.
Anyway these are minor issues. They won’t affect the security of your site.

But keep in mind that any bug in the free version is also present in the Pro paid version since Pro = Free + 10 extra features.
That said the Pro release only displays 2 ads widgets in the sidebar (instead of 5 in the free version).

I guess your question is answered. If so please mark this topic as ‘resolved’.

dwinden

Hi dwinden,

Thanks for the help. I would never have looked among the ads for a key function of the plug-in.

The free plugin plus extra features what exactly what I meant – if the free plugin has issues, then the paid plugin will have them too, and it’s not really encouraging me to get the paid plugin the way it is. I’m trying out a couple of different programs on some other sites, and will see how they go.

Thanks again,
Russell

Sorry Guys, but what a stupid place to hide the Active Lockouts section if at least you would put it on top… weird choice!

And it is still like that, 6 months later.. would not call that resolved.

@and_or

I think it was positioned exactly there on purpose to maximize the ads exposure.

But like I stated in an earlier post:

Nothing a few good code lines in the active theme functions.php file won’t fix ?? No ads and only the Malware Scan and Active Lockouts widgets get displayed without having to scroll down.
As a bonus a (javascript) bug in the Download Our WordPress Security Pocket Guide widget is prevented from happening on the Logs page.
(Once landed on the Logs page check the javascript console for the error:

SCRIPT5007: Unable to get property ‘replace’ of undefined or null reference
File: mc-validate.js, Line: 194, Column: 4
).

Thus, resolved + the Settings and Logs pages load faster ??
Isn’t WordPress wonderfull ??

a bit unfair to hide the release lockouts like that, no? I presume it’s to get people to click on the adds or something is it?