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This plugin would probably work OK if you have a small number of users (e.g. if your site doesn’t allow public login). But if you have a large number of users (e.g. if you are running ecommerce or allow users to register for other reasons), this plugin will probably take down your site.

The reason is that there are hooks that run when you activate or delete the plugin. It runs database fetch and update queries on every user in your database, all in-line on the request (rather than background via a cron). So if you have a thousand or more users it attempts to do a thousand or more database writes when you click Activate or Delete from the plugins list. This will likely grind your website to a halt.

It would be better/useable if you could either choose to only apply these scripts to specific user types (e.g. Author) or if you could run the update in batches in the background.

Errors are fixed.

• This topic was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by cool_recep.

Works as expected, recommend.

Easy way to add some obscurity to login guessing.

But please update as it’s over 2 years now.

…works fine. Thank you 🙂