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by
Andrea Ercolino
4.5 (2 reviews)
Login Dongle
The bookmark to login nobody but you. Simple and secure.
Login Dongle ranks #21,410 among WordPress.org plugins with 40+ active installations, is #507 of 1,659 in the Authentication category, a 4.5/5 rating from 2 reviews, and was last updated Oct 1, 2014. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Tested up to WP 4 (Current: 7.1.4)
v1.5.2
Current Version v1.5.2
Updated 12 years ago
Last Update on 01 Oct, 2014
Refreshed 1 week ago
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#507 of 1,659 in Authentication
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- Version
- 1.5.2
- Last Updated
- Oct 01, 2014
- Requires WP
- 1.0+
- Tested Up To
- 4
- PHP Version
- N/A
- Author
- Andrea Ercolino
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- Reviews
- 2
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Login Dongle
I'm going to fix any new bugs you find, but please try the last stable version, maybe it's already fixed. Prior to version 1.4.0 the Theme My Login plugin and the Login Dongle plugin didn't work together. See below. Prior to version 1.2.2 the jQuery library was not made available on the login page. the dongle didn't work with Get New Password button. Prior to version 1.2.1 a valid login could be rejected if the challenge or response contained quotes. Prior to version 1.2.0 the dongle encoding was not compatible with a SmartPhone browser. Prior to version 1.1.0 the challenge could interfere with other login fields. the dongle bypassed possible plugins associated to the submit button. Prior to version 1.0.4 the dongle and the activation procedure didn't work due to last minute bugs. Prior to version 1.0.3 it was impossible to install the plugin due to its file structure.
If you lost your login dongle, you can disable this plugin very easily. Access your blog by means of your usual remote file manager, like an FTP client. Edit the login-dongle.php file in the login-dongle plugin directory. Comment the line $loginDonglePlugin = new LoginDonglePlugin(); by adding // at the beginning. Save the file back to your site. This emergency procedure will make the default Log In button work again. After logging in, undo what you did above, otherwise this plugin will be marked as Active while being inactive. Then you can deactivate it with the WordPress button or leave it working.
Login Dongle does not touch any element of the standard login functionality (page, fields, buttons, processing ...) of WordPress, so you should be able to run this plugin alongside any other login plugin, like the wonderful Limit Login Attempts plugin. If you find issues, feel free to contact me and I'll have a look. Theme My Login (at least up to v6.2.2) is not comptible with Login Dongle out of the box. In Login Dongle v1.4.0 I added support for Theme My Login. Unfortunately, you need to add a missing line into the code of that plugin. In fact WP 3.2 introduced the login_init hook (that I use) but Theme My Login lacks it. To fix Theme My Login you'll need to edit the file *theme-my-login/includes/class-theme-my-login.php*. search for the text 'login_form'. That line and the one before should read: // allow plugins to override the default actions, and to add extra actions if they want
add a line in between, reading:
save the file
I would not. Login Dongle is designed to work in conjunction with brute force attacks repellers like Limit Login Attempts and the likes.
many times in a row. When that occurs, the recorded intruder's IP is used to reject their following login requests during some time, even before matching their credentials against the database.
field (question) or if that field does not contain the special value (answer) stored in the database of your blog, even before running the repeller or any special authentication plugins. To save your precious resources (CPU time and web availability) when under attack, Login Dongle simply exits with a configurable message, instead of incurring into another page generation cycle.
Yes, because if someone stole your dongle, they are supposed to not know the correct answer,
login form on the server, but they still need to guess your unknown (and strong) password. That means that soon they will be locked out by your brute forse attack repeller.
