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Force Password Update Plugin
Hopefully youre not making any of the most common password mistakes the kind that might result in your site being hacked. Hopefully, you use a password manager and choose random, unreadable passwords, and you change them often.
Thats just good common sense, whether for your site or someone elses.
But thats not what your users are doing. Theyre using
Reused and recycled passwords: If your member uses the same password for her Twitter account as she does for your site, and Twitter gets hacked you are at risk.
Commonly used passwords: If your member uses any of the hundreds of most commonly used passwords (and youd be shocked at how many do) you are at risk.
Easy-to-guess passwords: If your member uses words found in the dictionary you are at risk.
Well-known letter/number swaps: If your user tries to be clever by simply disguising letters as numbers you are at risk.
Regular Password Updates Help Protect Your Site From Hackers
The only question is, how can you get your users to comply?
The answer: a simple little plugin that does all the heavy lifting for you.
Introducing Force Password Update, a fully configurable plugin that helps keep your site secure.
Which users will Force Password Update work for? All of them, including
Administrators: You, your virtual assistant, your web designer anyone who has complete access to your site.
Editors: Anyone who can publish blog posts or pages on your site.
Authors and Contributors: Anyone who writes for your site.
Subscribers: Anyone including commentors on some sites who must log in to access certain features of your site.
How Force Password Update Works
You could if you have a lot of free time on your hands ask all your users to regularly change their passwords. You could even do it for them, thereby forcing them to update when they can no longer log in.
And if you only have a couple of users and an infallible memory, that might work for you.
But for the rest of us, an automated solution is best. With this plugin, thats exactly what you get. It offers
Easy installation simply upload the file to your site and activate
Simple configuration screen gives you total control over the user experience
The ability to set your own expiration period based on the level of risk you feel is acceptable
Customizable message to users when you first install the plugin so theyre not confused by the sudden change
Customizable message to users when they are forced to update their password so they know exactly why theyre being asked to update
The option to give administrators a pass by not forcing them to update
An additional field in the user profile so you can tell at a glance how old your users passwords really are
Multi-site license use it on every site you own.
See preview for tutorial
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