Switching Login Guard off is safe at any time. Nothing on your server was changed, so there is nothing to undo. This article explains the difference between deactivating, which keeps everything, and deleting, which clears it all away.
Deactivating:
- Go to Plugins.
- Click Deactivate under ResultsAiX Login Guard.
Straight away:
- wp-login.php shows the login form again
- /wp-admin/ behaves as normal WordPress does
- Your secret address becomes an ordinary missing page
Let the other people who sign in know, and update your bookmarks if the plugin will stay off.
What deactivating keeps:
Your settings are kept: your address, your Hide my login setting, where blocked visitors go and your help page settings. If you activate Login Guard again, the same address comes straight back. Administrators already have that address, so they are not emailed a second time.
Your free key and this site's place on it are kept too, so switching the plugin back on picks up exactly where you left off. The daily licence check pauses while the plugin is off and starts again with it.
Deleting:
- Deactivate Login Guard first, as above.
- Click Delete under ResultsAiX Login Guard on the Plugins screen, and confirm.
This removes Login Guard's own settings (your address, where blocked visitors go, the help page settings and your colour scheme), its record of the last email it sent, the one-time welcome notice and the licence details shown in its License panel. It also gives this site's place on your free key back, so you can use the key on another site. Your site then signs in at wp-login.php.
If you switched over from another hide-login plugin, that plugin's settings are left exactly where they were, so switching it back on picks up its old address.
For the technically minded, Login Guard keeps its settings in one WordPress option called rxlg_settings.
A real example:
Sam is testing a new page builder on a staging copy of Willow Creek Pottery and wants to rule Login Guard out. Sam deactivates it, tests, and activates it again ten minutes later. yoursite.com/kiln-room-42/ works again at once, and nobody gets a new email, because it is the same address.
Want to keep your login hidden?
Set up your replacement before you delete Login Guard, so your login is never left in plain sight.
Only need it off for a few minutes?
Switch Hide my login off on the Settings tab and back on when you are done. See The Hide My Login Switch. If you cannot sign in at all, use the emergency switch: add define( 'RXLG_OFF', true ); to wp-config.php, and take it out when you are done. See Forgot Your Login Address? Every Way Back In.