Hiding your WordPress username from bad bots

Do you know how to hide your WordPress usernames from bad bots? We are glad to introduce you a new Security plugin improvement: from now CleanTalk allows you to hide WordPress username from bad bots brute-force.

Before this improvement became available some bots could learn WordPress usernames by their ID and use it to brute-force these accounts later. For example, a request like «‎https://blog.cleantalk.org/?author=007»‎ could return the username «https://blog.cleantalk.org/author/james_bond».

This option is switched off by default so in order to avoid vulnerabilities like that we highly recommend to switch it on.

Step 1: Go to Plugins → Installed Plugins.

Step 2: Go to Settings beneath the Security plugin.

And after that choose General Settings.

Step 3: Go to Miscellaneous section and find checkbox ‎«‎Prevent collecting of authors logins» and just check this box.

Step 4: Press the «Save Changes» button.

Success! That’s how quickly CleanTalk allows you to hide WordPress username from bad bots

If you have any questions, add a comment and we will be happy to help you.

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