by Palasthotel GmbH 5 (1 reviews)

A little more secure

Name: A little more secure
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)
Author: Palasthotel GmbH

Stop bots from brute force hacking your wp-login.php

A little more secure ranks #13,630 among WordPress.org plugins with 100+ active installations, is #827 of 5,058 in the Security category, a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews, and was last updated Oct 3, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1.4

v1.1.2 Current Version v1.1.2

Updated 1 month ago Last Update on 03 Oct, 2026

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.1.2
Last Updated: Oct 03, 2026
Requires WP: 5.0+
Tested Up To: 7.1.4
PHP Version: 8.2 or higher
Author: Palasthotel GmbH

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who want to slow down automated brute force attempts against wp-login.php. It requires visitors to pass through a JavaScript-redirected holding page and carry a matching nonce before a login form or POST is accepted, raising the cost of naive bot automation without acting as a full lockout.

Blocks naive wp-login.php automation
Holding page with countdown redirect
Nonce required for login POST
No configuration needed to activate
Filter to customize unlock logic
Filter to rename unlock parameter
Filter to adjust redirect delay
Rotating unlock parameter via token

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about A little more secure

No. Activate the plugin and it works. Everything that can be changed is changed with the filters described above, in a theme or a small plugin of your own.

That is intentional. A request to wp-login.php without the unlock parameter is answered with a 404 so that automated scanners see a missing page. Your browser still shows the holding page and is redirected to the real form a few seconds later. Uptime monitors and scanners pointed at wp-login.php will report it as missing — point them at a different URL, or exclude wp-login.php. I cannot log in. It says "Sorry, this feels not very secure". That message means the login form was submitted without a valid nonce. The usual causes: Something is caching wp-login.php. It must not be cached — the page carries a nonce that goes stale. Your theme renders its own login form that posts to wp-login.php without the nonce field. Call a_little_more_secure_nonce_field() inside the form. The login page sat open in a tab for more than a day. Nonces expire after at most 24 hours. Reload the page and log in again.

No. The redirect to the unlocked form is done in JavaScript, and only the unlocked form carries the nonce a login needs. Without JavaScript you will see the login page but the submission is rejected. If that is a problem for you, add your own rule with the a_little_more_secure_is_unlocked filter.

No. The plugin only guards wp-login.php. Brute force attempts against xmlrpc.php, the REST API or application passwords are unaffected, and those are common targets. If you do not use XML-RPC, disable it separately.

Yes. The unlock parameter is a fixed name by default, so a bookmark such as example.com/wp-login.php?a-little-more-secure keeps working and skips the wait. That changes only if you set up a rotating parameter as described above.

Yes, network activated or per site. The plugin stores nothing and has no per-site setup, so both work the same way.

No. It writes no options, sets no cookies and creates no database tables. The only thing it looks at is whether the unlock parameter is present in the request.

More secure than before, but this is a speed bump, not a lock. The unlock parameter and the nonce both have to be handed to a browser that is not logged in yet, so anything that fetches the page can read them too. It defeats bots that post blindly at wp-login.php, which is most of them. It does not defeat a determined attacker, and it does nothing about weak passwords or repeated attempts from the same source — combine it with strong passwords and rate limiting.