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Will it break Jetpack or the WordPress app?

Updated Login Security 1.6.0Tested with WordPress 7.1

Not on the default setting. Those use XML-RPC, and the default blocks only system.multicall — the one call that lets a single request carry hundreds of password guesses — leaving everything else working.

Choosing Switch it off entirely does break them. That is the trade, and it is why it is not the default.

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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.