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Which authenticator app should I use?

Updated Login Security 1.6.0Tested with WordPress 7.1

Any of them. The second step here is plain TOTP, which is what every app implements: Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, 1Password, Bitwarden, Aegis, Ente Auth, and the one built into iOS and into most password managers.

There is no account to make with anybody and nothing is sent anywhere. Your phone and your site share a secret and both look at the clock.

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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.