The customizer banned my IP address from failed login attempts

  • Resolved Sébastien Dumont

    (@sebd86)


    10 years ago

    I’m currently building a new website and after a few changes made, the page no longer showed up to preview.

    After I press Save and Publish I go back to the site only to find my IP address was banned for too many login attempts.

    `Your IP address was temporarily banned.

    You may have been banned for one of the following reasons:

    Failing to log into wordpress (wp-login) 10 times in 5 minutes (30 minute ban)
    POSTING to xmlrpc.php more than once in 60 seconds (2 hour ban)
    If you have a legitimate use for either of these cases please contact support.’

    It might be better if you clone the wp-login.php without it’s functions leaving just the form on the page and call that in the customizer instead.

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  • Plugin Author Hardeep Asrani

    (@hardeepasrani)

    Hi,

    You really gave us a great idea, and we will consider doing this for the next update as it will solve a lot of issues that one can have with the security plugins. ??

    Regards,
    Hardeep

    Hi there,

    I just had the same problem yesterday. My web host banned my IP for too many attempted wrong/incorrect/invalid POSTS of login information to wp-login.php within a short period of time, when all I was doing was customizing the look and feel of the login page using the plugin. For now I have been whitelisted, but there needs to be a longer-term solution.

    I hope you will have an update for this soon.

    Many thanks for your work on this plugin!

    I am also having this problem. While customizing the login page, the preview became stuck on loading. I reloaded or closed the page and afterwards I could not enter the website including wp-admin anymore (err connection timed out).

    A different IP allowed me to visit the website.

    I think it is blocked by ISP.

    Is there a solution for this issue?

    Alexandra

    (@alexandrastan001)

    Hello,

    Are you using any plugins? If you do, please try to disable them and see if those are causing the issue.
    If you can’t access your wp-admin anymore, you can change the name of the plugins folder.

    Best regards,
    Alexandra

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