You might want to try the opposite approach, and start whitelisting IPs provided by your authors, rather than trying to blacklist everything else. Yes, they'll get locked out from time to time. You'll need a separate mechanism that allows them to register a new IP. Since (my experience) most of the bad guys come from specific geographical areas, I also recommend IP Geo Block. People have been hoping Defender gets the same features (which I think would be a waste). Until it does, that plugin can probably reduce your hack attempts significantly. HTH

I don't know if I've seen a forum note like this in a long time ... absolutely no context that can be used to provide a useful answer. LOL But you did say "form" and that's a clue! I'm guessing you're using Forminator. So the easiest and most immediate answer to your question is to add more fields to the form, and then use the conditional option to only show the "next" fields if the previous fields are non-null. So the field for the second bouncer only displays when the user indicates they want a first one, and the third only displays when the second has been filled in. There are other ways to approach this with code, but this should help for now.

This is "kinda" a FAQ. I hope someone links back to prior requests.

Please see my hub for the site with subdomain "linkarmv", plugins reCAPTCHA and ACF. I'm using Firefox. Maybe this is something JS/AJAX-specific. HTH

Google Captcha (reCAPTCHA) by BestWebSoft v 1.41 Advanced Custom Fields v 5.7.12 Query Monitor v 3.3.1

Well, since Automate is updating all of my plugins, it will be a while before there are new changelogs from a variety of plugins to post here. Suffice to say, there were a Lot of them or I would not have posted here. It's possible that the Ajax mechanism that retrieves the file data wasn't working consistently. I dunno - I saw a problem and reported it and now through normal usage the symptoms are all gone. To test, just turn off Automate plugin updates for one or more sites that have a lot of plugins, and keep an eye on the changelogs. Since we're here - it would be nice if we could still see the changelogs for all plugins even after they have been updated. Consider "the plugin has already been updated, you don't need to know what was in this last update or any previous updates". (Picture Obi Wan Kenobi talking to a storm trooper.) That doesn't make any sense. :)

For anyone who sees this : If you want to deactivate Uptime in the Hub for a site, you must use Chrome until this issue has been fixed.

There are a lot of bots that hit /wp-admin. Changing that name would significantly reduce the number of possible entries through that vector. It would...

Thank you Adam Czajczyk - as always, we're on the same page. :metal:

Adam Czajczyk as with many of these suggestions, once the concept is established the details are superflous. Just litter the Hub, Automate, Hosting, Managed Backups, this forum, and Asana tasks with webhooks - before and after every key event point. Then there will never again be a need to ask individuals about whatever application they have on their minds right now - and we won't need to see variations of the same requests over and again here.