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EDZNET Security Guard
Requires 2FA for administrators, blocks new admin creation, refuses URL-credential logins, and emails you on admin logins. Locked to first admin.
EDZNET Security Guard ranks #23,385 among WordPress.org plugins with 30+ active installations, is #535 of 1,584 in the Authentication category, and was last updated Sep 3, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Compatible with WP 7.1
v1.4.2
Current Version v1.4.2
Updated 2 weeks ago
Last Update on 03 Sep, 2026
Refreshed 8 hours ago
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#535 of 1,584 in Authentication
Top 50% by installs
Downloads -48.2% this week
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- Version
- 1.4.2
- Last Updated
- Sep 03, 2026
- Requires WP
- 5.8+
- Tested Up To
- 7.1
- PHP Version
- 7.2 or higher
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about EDZNET Security Guard
The site's first administrator account — the user with the Administrator role and the earliest registration date (registration dates are not changed when an account is renamed). If that account is deleted, the lock moves to the next earliest-registered administrator.
Only the first administrator account can change these settings. This is intentional: a compromised admin account should not be able to disable the protections.
Yes — temporarily disable "Block administrator creation", create the account, then re-enable it.
Yes. The block is enforced at the core wp_insert_user() level, so admin-created users, REST API calls, and XML-RPC requests are all refused while the setting is enabled.
Any successful sign-in by a user with the Administrator role — including the first administrator. Each alert includes the username, IP address, browser, and the time of the login. Alerts are sent to the first administrator's email unless you set a different address on the settings page.
Once enabled, an administrator enters their username and password as usual, then a 6-digit code from an authenticator app (Google Authenticator, Authy, 1Password, Microsoft Authenticator, and any other TOTP-compatible app). The code is generated from a secret that is only shown once, as a QR code or a text key, and verified server-side against that secret. Codes refresh every 30 seconds.
In their profile under "EDZNET Guard — Two-Factor Authentication", or on the login page itself: an administrator who hasn't set up 2FA yet is shown the enrollment screen at their next login instead of being signed straight in.
The first administrator can open the administrator's profile and reset (remove) their two-factor authentication, then they sign in again and set up a new secret. If the locked-out administrator IS the first administrator, the secret can be removed with one click from their own profile by an administrator who has already completed 2FA — or, if nobody can get in, the two-factor authentication can be turned off directly in the database by deleting the edznet_guard_2fa_enabled option.
Not built in — but it pairs with our EDZNET Geolocation plugin, which blocks logins, comments and whole countries by visitor location, blocks individual IPs, and shows where your visitors come from. When Geolocation is active, Security Guard links straight to its country-blocking screen. Install it from WordPress.org.
On the Users screen, hover over a user and click Block login. The account is refused at the login screen and its existing sessions are ended. Click Unblock login (or the button on the EDZNET Guard settings page) to restore it at any time.
