Site Lockout – How to stop it!

  • Hi,

    I am getting around 5-10 emails per day telling me that I have been locked out of my own website…. Even when I haven’t even visited my website?!

    Not only that, when I do visit my site, I can’t get in for ages because I am locked out…

    This is starting to drive me bonkers! What is the solution to this? And, above all, why is my username getting blocked out?

    Thanks in advance

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  • Hi,

    I have the same problem, too many mail telling me I’ve been locket out. The worst is that I am the only user (admin) of my web site and now I can not access it. Please help me on this. Any advice will be appreciated.

    Thanks

    Sounds like someone found out your usernames and is trying to brake in.

    With the newer wordpress version if you create a new user it will publicly display the username as the nickname/display-name and that is visible on each post.
    Something similar might have happened when you updated.

    If you can log in go to your profile and make sure your username and your display name are not the same.

    It’s also a very good idea to have a backup user account for such cases.

    Hope this helps.

    Thread Starter welshhuw

    (@welshhuw)

    Really… I didn’t think of that.

    I think I will create a new admin account, make sure that my username and my blog post names are different and then delete the old admin account.

    Fingers crossed that will do the trick.

    Thanks for the help.

    I’ll keep you posted if this doesn’t resolve it.

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