Simple Login Guard – Monitor & Block Attempts

Simple Login Guard is a lightweight login security plugin designed to protect your WordPress website from brute-force attacks. It monitors every login attempt, logs failed and successful logins, tracks suspicious behavior, and automatically blocks IP addresses that exceed your configured threshold — keeping your site safe without slowing it down.

No confusing settings. No bulky security suite. Just simple, effective login protection.

🔐 Key Features

Monitor Failed & Successful Login Attempts — Logs every attempt with username, IP, timestamp, and status.

Automatic IP Blocking — Block IPs that exceed a defined number of failed attempts within a time window.

Customizable Security Rules — Failed attempts threshold — Lockout duration — Time window for counting attempts — Retention period for logs

Manual Block / Unblock IPs — Block or unblock IP addresses from the admin dashboard.

Lightweight and Fast — Uses optimized database queries and caching to avoid performance issues.

Safe Logging Table — Creates a separate database table for login attempts, leaving core tables untouched.

📊 Admin Dashboard

The plugin includes an easy-to-use interface under:

Tools → Simple Login Guard

Sections include:

• Settings
• Blocked IPs List