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Does moving the sign-in page make me safe?

Updated Login Security 1.6.0Tested with WordPress 7.1

No, and the screen says so. Anybody who watches one request, or reads the HTML of a page that links to the form, can find the new address. It is not a lock.

What it does is stop machines finding the page, which on most sites is thousands of requests a month that arrive as a 404 instead of as a password check. Worth doing for the quiet. Not worth relying on.

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The Login Security dashboard in WordPress admin. A green notice reads 1 lockout this week, and the site is fine: 13 attempts were refused, from 4 addresses. Four cards show 13 refused this week, 1 locked out, 4 addresses and 1 signed in. A panel headed You cannot be locked out lists the address you are on, that signed-in administrators are never locked out, and the sign-in page, with a Never lock out the address I am on now button. Below it, Usernames being tried shows admin tried 7 times, marked a real account and no second step.