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Will refusing weak passwords annoy my customers?

Updated Login Security 1.6.0Tested with WordPress 7.1

It can, which is why Applies to exists. Set it to People who can change the site — anybody who can edit a post or a setting — and your customers are never affected. That is the default.

A shop with ten thousand accounts does not want a refused checkout because somebody's password was chelsea, and that account cannot edit a line of your site. Your editor's can.

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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.