Title: Apocalypse Meow
Author: Blobfolio
Published: <strong>11. Novembra 2012.</strong>
Last modified: 28. Januara 2026.

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# Apocalypse Meow

 Od [Blobfolio](https://profiles.wordpress.org/blobfolio/)

[Skini](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/apocalypse-meow.23.0.0.zip)

 * [Detalji](https://bs.wordpress.org/plugins/apocalypse-meow/#description)
 * [Recenzije](https://bs.wordpress.org/plugins/apocalypse-meow/#reviews)
 *  [Instalacija](https://bs.wordpress.org/plugins/apocalypse-meow/#installation)
 * [Razvoj](https://bs.wordpress.org/plugins/apocalypse-meow/#developers)

 [Podrška](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/apocalypse-meow/)

## Opis

Apocalypse Meow's main focus is addressing WordPress security issues related to 
user accounts and logins. This includes things like:

 * Brute-force login-in protection;
 * Customizable password strength requirements;
 * XML-RPC access controls;
 * Account access alerts;
 * Searchable access logs (including failed login attempts and temporary bans);
 * User enumeration prevention;
 * Registration SPAM protection;
 * Miscellaneous Core and template options to make targeted hacks more difficult;
 * Anonymize/scrub leaky remote request headers;

Security is an admittedly technical subject, but Apocalypse Meow strives to help
educate “normal” users about the nature of common web attacks, mitigation techniques,
etc. Every option contains detailed explanations and links to external resources
with additional information.

Knowledge is power!

### Requirements

Due to the advanced nature of some of the plugin features, there are a few additional
server requirements beyond what WordPress itself requires:

 * WordPress 4.4+.
 * PHP 7.3 or later.
 * PHP extensions: (bcmath or gmp), date, filter, json, pcre.
 * `CREATE` and `DROP` MySQL grants.
 * Single-site Installs (i.e. Multi-Site is not supported).

Please note: it is **not safe** to run WordPress atop a version of PHP that has 
reached its [End of Life](http://php.net/supported-versions.php). Future releases
of this plugin might, out of necessity, drop support for old, unmaintained versions
of PHP. To ensure you continue to receive plugin updates, bug fixes, and new features,
just make sure PHP is kept up-to-date. 🙂

### Log Monitoring

Some robots are so dumb they'll continue trying to submit credentials even after
the login form is replaced, wasting system resources and clogging up the log-in 
history table. One way to mitigate this is to use a server-side log-monitoring program
like [Fail2Ban](http://www.fail2ban.org/) or [OSSEC](https://ossec.github.io/) to
ban users via the firewall.

Apocalypse Meow produces a 403 error when a banned user requests the login form.
Your log-monitoring rule should therefore look for repeated 403 responses to `wp-
login.php`. Additionally, some robots are unable to follow redirects; if your login
form requires SSL, you should also ban repeated 301/302 responses to catch those
fools.

If you have enabled user enumeration protection with the `die()` option, requests
for `?author=X` will produce a 400 response code which can be similarly tracked.

### Privacy Policy

When active, this plugin retains security logs of every sign-in attempt made to 
the CMS backend. This information — including the end user's public IP address, 
username, and the status of his or her attempt — is used to help prevent unauthorized
system access and maintain Quality of Service for all site visitors.

This information resides fully on the hosting web site and is not shared with any
third parties.

Data retention is entirely up to the site operator, but by default old records are
automatically removed after 90 days.

Please note: Apocalypse Meow **DOES NOT** integrate with any WordPress GDPR “Personal
Data” features. (Selective erasure of audit logs would undermine the security mechanisms
provided by this plugin. Haha.)

## Slike ekrana

 * [[
 * View and search the login history and manage banned users.
 * [[
 * All settings include detailed explanations, suggestions, and links to additional
   resources. Not only will your site be vastly more secure, you'll learn a lot!
 * [[
 * Simple but sexy statistics.
 * [[
 * A ton of additional security and management tools for system administrators, 
   including an ability to view and revoke individual user sessions.
 * [[
 * A full suite of WP-CLI tools, hookable functions and filters to interact with
   or extend the login protection features, read-only configurations, and detailed
   documentation covering it all!

## Instalacija

Nothing fancy! You can use the built-in installer on the Plugins page or extract
and upload the `apocalypse-meow` folder to your plugins directory via FTP.

To install this plugin as [Must-Use](https://codex.wordpress.org/Must_Use_Plugins),
download, extract, and upload the `apocalypse-meow` folder to your mu-plugins directory
via FTP. See the [MU Caveats](https://codex.wordpress.org/Must_Use_Plugins#Caveats)
for more information about getting WordPress to load an MU plugin that is in a subfolder.

Please note: MU Plugins are removed from the usual update-checking process, so you
will need to handle future updates manually.

## ČPP

### Is this plugin compatible with WPMU?

No, sorry. This plugin may only be installed on single-site WordPress instances.

### How do I unban a user?

The Login Activity page will show any active bans in the top/right corner. You can
click the button corresponding to the victim to remove the ban.

If you accidentally banned yourself and cannot access the backend, you have a few
options:

 * Wait until the defined time has elapsed;
 * Login from a different IP address (tip: use your cellphone (via data, not Wifi));
 * Ask a friend to login and pardon you;
 * Temporarily de-activate the plugin by renaming the `apocalypse-meow` plugin folder
   via FTP;

Remember: you can (and should) whitelist any IP addresses that you commonly log 
in from. This is done through the Settings pgae.

### Can I see the passwords people tried when logging in?

Of course not! Haha. Apocalypse Meow is here to solve security problems, not create
them. Only usernames and IP addresses are stored.

### Will the brute-force log-in prevention work if my server is behind a proxy?

As of version 1.5.0, it is now possible to specify an alternative `$_SERVER` variable
Apocalypse Meow should use to determine the visitor's “true” IP. It is important
to note, however, that depending on how that environmental variable is populated,
the value might be forgeable. Nonetheless, this should be better than nothing!

### I am seeing “You are running Vue in development mode.” in the console?

This informational message appears on Apocalypse Meow admin pages if your site is
running in [WP_DEBUG](https://codex.wordpress.org/WP_DEBUG) mode. This version of
[Vue.js](https://vuejs.org/) can provide more useful information for debugging Javascript-
related issues.

When `WP_DEBUG` is set to `FALSE` (which should be the case for any production sites),
the leaner production version of Vue.js is loaded instead. 🙂

### Multi-Server Setup

Apocalypse Meow tracks login history in the database. If your WordPress site is 
spread across multiple load-balanced servers, they must share access to a master
database, or else tracking will only occur on a per-node basis.

## Recenzije

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### 󠀁[Useful Security Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/useful-security-plugin-3/)󠁿

 [maxhandmade](https://profiles.wordpress.org/maxhandmade/) 7. Aprila 2024.

First of all, thank you very much for sharing such a free work with us. Frankly,
I avoided installing a few WordPress plugins on my site. I wish you continued success.

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### 󠀁[Always with me](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/always-with-me/)󠁿

 [polishdreamer](https://profiles.wordpress.org/polishdreamer/) 12. Februara 2021.

Good plugin, good work ! One of my first plugin to install

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### 󠀁[Laudable, great](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/laudable-great/)󠁿

 [rvnadm](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rvnadm/) 7. Augusta 2020.

A very nice plugin with VERY reasonable pricing. No bullshit, just a great plugin
overall, highly recommended. Pay up, it's worth it.

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### 󠀁[Just what I was looking for!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/just-what-i-was-looking-for-446/)󠁿

 [upcraft](https://profiles.wordpress.org/upcraft/) 31. Maja 2020.

What a great approach to WordPress security. Lightweight indeed, simple settings,
very effective, and LOVE the community feature to block already known IPs from access.
Purchased premium license, and you should too!

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### 󠀁[Works very well!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-very-well-463/)󠁿

 [thomei](https://profiles.wordpress.org/thomei/) 8. Februara 2020.

Works very well! Quick and very helpful support! Thank you!

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### 󠀁[great protection](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-protection-17/)󠁿

 [nosilver4u](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nosilver4u/) 12. Septembra 2019.

Works nicely to protect from brute force logins, and the developer is fantastic!

 [ Read all 23 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/apocalypse-meow/reviews/)

## Saradnici i programeri

“Apocalypse Meow” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Doprinositelji

 *   [ Blobfolio ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/blobfolio/)

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### Zainteresirani za razvoj?

[Pregledajte kôd](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/apocalypse-meow/), 
pogledajte [SVN spremište](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/apocalypse-meow/)ili
se pretplatite na [dnevnik razvoja](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/apocalypse-meow/)
od [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/apocalypse-meow/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Zapis promijena

#### 23.0.0

 * [Remove] Translation support.
 * [Fix] Parameter sanitization on Activity page (thanks patrowl.io!).
 * [Fix] Search by subnet.

#### 22.1.0

 * [Misc] Disable anonymization feature by default for new installs
 * [Doc] Mention potential host incompatibilities w/ anonymization
 * [Remove] Drop bcrypt password-hashing option since Core does it by default now

#### 22.0.1

 * [Fix] Improve PHP 8.4 compatibility

#### 22.0.0

 * [Remove] This release removes the Community Pool feature. End of an era. 😉

#### 21.9.0

 * [New] Anonymize the leaky headers WP adds to all remote requests.
 * [Misc] Modernize `wp-config.php` constant codegen (suggest `const` instead of`
   define`).

## Meta

 *  Version **23.0.0**
 *  Last updated **prije 3 mjeseca**
 *  Active installations **400+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.4 ili viša **
 *  Tested up to **6.9.4**
 *  PHP version ** 7.3 ili viša **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/apocalypse-meow/)
 * Tags
 * [Brute Force](https://bs.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/brute-force/)[login](https://bs.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/login/)
   [security](https://bs.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/security/)
 *  [Napredni pogled](https://bs.wordpress.org/plugins/apocalypse-meow/advanced/)

## Ocjene

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Doprinositelji

 *   [ Blobfolio ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/blobfolio/)

## Podrška

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