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By default, a WordPress user can log in to an account from different locations. This can compromise the security of a WordPress site with multiple authors. It can also cause this to negatively impact your earnings when it comes to a member site. In this article, we will discuss how we can prevent people from sharing passwords in WordPress by blocking collaborative login attempts.
How does WordPress deal with user sessions?
Before we go ahead, let's see how WordPress deals with user sessions. Like many other applications, WordPress uses cookies to identify a logged in user. These cookies do not contain your password, just your username and a special key as proof that you knew the password.
When you reach the website from an external location and accidentally press the "Remember" button, anyone from that computer can log onto your website because WordPress allows the same username to log in from different locations.
This is a bit problematic for security, but it can also give business issues when it comes to a website with members selling premium packages.
Users can simply share their password and login information with friends to retrieve your paid information.
Would not it be nice that you could prevent users from logging in from different places ?. Only recently, when a user asked us this question, we were able to start something against simultaneous logins thanks to a plug-in.
When you reach the website from an external location and accidentally press the "Remember" button, anyone from that computer can log onto your website because WordPress allows the same username to log in from different locations.
This is a bit problematic for security, but it can also give business issues when it comes to a website with members selling premium packages.
Users can simply share their password and login information with friends to retrieve your paid information.
Would not it be nice that you could prevent users from logging in from different places ?. Only recently, when a user asked us this question, we were able to start something against simultaneous logins thanks to a plug-in.
Prevent simultaneous login and password sharing in WordPress
The first thing you need to do is install the Prevent Competitor Logins plugin. You will see that it works without the need and you do not have to configure settings.
You can test this plugin by signing in to your WordPress site from two different browsers on your computer or by using the private or incognito mode.
When you try to log in with the same password and same username from the second browser, you will be able to log in successfully. But, the plugin will end the old session and any link you click in the previous browser window, you will always be returned to the login page. That's all.
We hope this article helped you to figure out how to prevent users from sharing passwords in WordPress and preventing them from preventing simultaneous logins. Also, we would like to remind you once more that passwords can be hacked. If you want to avoid this, you must use strong passwords on your WordPress site. And you can also force all users to use strong passwords on the site.
You can test this plugin by signing in to your WordPress site from two different browsers on your computer or by using the private or incognito mode.
When you try to log in with the same password and same username from the second browser, you will be able to log in successfully. But, the plugin will end the old session and any link you click in the previous browser window, you will always be returned to the login page. That's all.
We hope this article helped you to figure out how to prevent users from sharing passwords in WordPress and preventing them from preventing simultaneous logins. Also, we would like to remind you once more that passwords can be hacked. If you want to avoid this, you must use strong passwords on your WordPress site. And you can also force all users to use strong passwords on the site.
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