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ETBS Account Guard
Protects the accounts that manage your site. Hides the login names of your users from visitors who are not logged in.
ETBS Account Guard ranks #19,727 among WordPress.org plugins with 60+ active installations, is #446 of 1,659 in the Authentication category, and was last updated Oct 1, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Compatible with WP 7.1.4
v1.3.0
Current Version v1.3.0
Updated 1 month ago
Last Update on 01 Oct, 2026
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#446 of 1,659 in Authentication
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- Version
- 1.3.0
- Last Updated
- Oct 01, 2026
- Requires WP
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- Tested Up To
- 7.1.4
- PHP Version
- 7.3 or higher
- Author
- ETBS (DAI)
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about ETBS Account Guard
No. The REST API user endpoints stay available to logged-in users, which is what the author panel of the block editor uses.
No. Each item returns to the behavior of WordPress itself when it is turned off.
Deleting the plugin removes the denial log of Access Restriction, the saved result of the BASIC authentication receive diagnosis (rebuilt the next time it is run), the sign-in attempts, send records, confirmations and trusted devices of Two-Step Verification, a few internal records and cached counts, and, if present, the update check data left behind by an earlier version distributed outside WordPress.org. All settings, including the per-role and per-user Access Restriction modes, IP lists, BASIC authentication IDs and password hashes, and the per-role and per-user Two-Step Verification settings (including the number of days a device is trusted), are kept so that they come back if you install the plugin again.
No. It is off for every role and user until you turn it on. Existing settings are not changed.
Wait a few minutes, check the spam folder, and send a new code from the code screen. If codes never arrive, check the email sending of your site. As a last resort, add define( 'ACGD_DISABLE_TWO_STEP', true ); to wp-config.php to stop Two-Step Verification until the problem is fixed.
No. Only users who can manage options can change it, on the settings tab or on the user edit screen.
On the code screen, a user can check "Skip the verification code on this device for 30 days" (unchecked by default; do not check it on a shared computer). The number of days is set on the tab: 7, 30 (the default) or off. Only the code is skipped: the password is needed every time, and IP restriction and BASIC authentication still apply. The browser keeps a random value in an HttpOnly cookie, and the site stores only its hash (up to 20 devices per user; the oldest go first). A change of the number of days applies at once to devices already trusted, and saving "Do not trust devices" revokes every trusted device of every user. Changing the password (by a reset, on the profile screen or by any other means) revokes every trusted device of that user, and so does the "Revoke all trusted devices on save" checkbox on the user edit screen — use either if a device is lost. When another user trusts the same browser, the earlier user needs a code again there. Trusted devices do not apply to XML-RPC.
First click "Send a confirmation code" at the top of the tab (or in the Two-Step Verification section of your own Profile screen) and enter the code you receive. A save that would turn two-step verification on for your own account is refused until you have done this within the last 10 minutes, so you cannot lock yourself out with an address that does not receive email. Turning it on for someone else requires that their account has a valid email address.
A session of a user who needs a code is kept only if it went through the code (or was created inside such a session). Sessions from before the feature was turned on, and sessions created by other plugins' sign-in methods, are signed out on their next request. The acgd_two_step_session_exempt filter can keep them.
Two-Step Verification is not available on multisite: the login cookie can be shared across the network, so a site without it would let people in. The other features work as before.
