Login Guard installs like any other WordPress plugin, and nothing about your login changes until you choose your secret address. That makes it safe to install at any time, even on a busy site.
It needs WordPress 5.8 or newer and PHP 7.4 or newer.
Installing:
- In WordPress go to Plugins, then Add New Plugin, then Upload Plugin.
- Choose the Login Guard zip file and click Install Now.
- Click Activate Plugin.
On the Plugins screen, ResultsAiX Login Guard now has a Settings link under its name, next to Deactivate. It opens Login Guard.
What happens the moment you activate:
- If your site already uses a hide-login plugin that Login Guard recognises, Login Guard takes over the address it was using, exactly as it is, and switches the old plugin off. Your login is protected straight away and every administrator is emailed the address. See Switching Over From Another Hide-Login Plugin.
- Otherwise, nothing about your login changes yet. wp-login.php keeps working as normal until you choose your secret address.
A green notice at the top of the next screen tells you what happened in plain words. It starts with ResultsAiX Login Guard is on, and then either shows your login address or says: Choose your login address to switch the protection on. Until you do, nothing about your login has changed. Its Open Login Guard link takes you straight in. The notice shows once.
Where to find Login Guard:
A new menu called AiX Login Guard, with a shield icon, appears in your WordPress sidebar. Every Login Guard screen is for administrators only.
Before you have entered your free key, the menu opens a single screen: the free key screen described in Getting Login Guard Free. If you already have a login address, it is shown at the very top of that screen, before anything else, with a Copy button. You always know where you sign in, key or no key.
Once your key is active, the sidebar shows Dashboard, Settings and Training under AiX Login Guard. Every Login Guard screen has tabs across the top: Dashboard, Settings, Training, Resources and Diagnostics. If the ResultsAiX Hub is installed, there is a Hub tab as well.
Switching the protection on:
- Get your free key (one press, see Getting Login Guard Free).
- Open the Dashboard tab. It says Choose your login address to switch the protection on. Press Choose my login address.
- On the Settings tab, type your secret address in the Sign in at box.
- Press Save settings.
- The screen says Saved. You now sign in at, then your new address, and that it has been emailed to every administrator.
- Bookmark your new address.
A real example:
Sam installs Login Guard on Willow Creek Pottery at yoursite.com. The green notice says nothing about the login has changed yet. Sam presses Get my free key and activate, opens the Settings tab, types kiln-room-42 in Sign in at and presses Save settings.
From then on, Sam signs in at yoursite.com/kiln-room-42/. Sam and Priya, the other administrator, both get an email with the address.
Tips:
- Choose an address you will remember. See Choosing Your Secret Login Address for the rules and some ideas.
- Open your new address in a private browser window once, to see it working for yourself.
- Tell your editors, authors and members the new address. Only administrators are emailed it.