Two Factor Authentication

Excellent plugin, works greatly like a charm.

• This topic was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by Emilio Lejit.

Please look elsewhere if you want a plugin that sends one-time passcodes via email. I originally purchased this plugin to send a one-time password to my class subscribers via email whenever they attempt to log in to their WooCommerce account. Only after I bought the plugin did I realize that my customers would need to install a third-party app for this plugin to work.

I don’t want to inconvenience customers by requiring them to install another app to have a code sent to them, so this plugin isn’t usable for me. The author of the plugin was responsive when I contacted them for support. Still, I recommend adding a statement about not being able to send one-time passcodes via email on the plugin’s landing page.

Perfect, simple solution for Google Authenticator

So, I ordered Simbas’ 2FAplugin for my website. However, when I tried to install it, I got locked out. Not that I even knew what I was doing when I set it up. I contacted Simba and I was told they would work with me, but they needed cpanel access to my account. My hosting account didn’t come with it. My first thought was to just give up, but my Simba rep David kept after me to follow through, even after a dozen e-mails back and forth with half as many failures. So, I upgraded my account and got cpanel along with some other useful feature and comme par magie, Simba had the 2FA working on my website. These guys are definnitely getting a Christmas card from me.

While the plugin is well written, it follows a recent trend that is a massive turnoff. The features most needed are only available in the paid version. The free version doesn’t allow the admin to make using this plugin compulsory, which means it’s useless. While I greatly appreciate the amount of effort involved in coding (been coding for over 40 years, myself), charging $20+ annually PER site is entirely unrealistic. Add the sheer number of plugins a typical WP site uses, multiply that by the number of sites many web admins are responsible for, and it’s simply too expensive for what I’m getting. We all want to live in mansions, but let’s get real. I pay $100 annually for my Office 365 Family, and six of us gets the full suite of products PLUS each of us gets a terabyte of cloud storage.
I’ll be using a different plugin on my sites.