{"id":14884,"date":"2024-08-08T18:05:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T01:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codedcommerce.com\/?p=14884"},"modified":"2024-08-08T18:05:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T01:05:33","slug":"wordpress-two-factor-authentication-2fa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codedcommerce.com\/wordpress-two-factor-authentication-2fa\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress two factor authentication (2FA)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nowadays just about every critical service that we use requires dual authentication methods (2FA). This is more practically known as &#8220;the thing that sends you a code by text, email, or Authentication App to verify your identity, after logging in with password&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Security and convenience are always at odds. Everybody dislikes 2FA, but it&#8217;s a necessary inconvenience. This technology has grown in popularity as reports of data leaks have been on the rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WordPress and WooCommerce store owners love the convenience of the platform, but may not realize their exposure when using passwords alone &#8211; especially for Shop Manager or Administrator access levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s just a few things that a bad actor could do with Administrator access:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Install malware<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Steal user information<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Delete anything on your site<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s some 2FA plugins to check out and consider adding one to your site to fix those password weaknesses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wordfence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wordfence\/<\/a> WordFence does a whole lot more than 2FA. This is the one to use if you need a software firewall, site scanner, or already use it and just need to enable 2FA.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/two-factor-authentication\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/two-factor-authentication\/<\/a> (open-source, specify roles)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/two-factor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/two-factor\/<\/a> (open-source, simplest)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-2fa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-2fa\/<\/a> (freemium)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/miniorange-2-factor-authentication\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/miniorange-2-factor-authentication\/<\/a> (freemium)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays just about every critical service that we use requires dual authentication methods (2FA). This is more practically known as &#8220;the thing that sends you a code by text, email, or Authentication App to verify your identity, after logging in with password&#8221;. Security and convenience are always at odds. Everybody dislikes 2FA, but it&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52047,635718625,635718626],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-woocommerce-guides","category-wordpress-guides"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/codedcommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/handling-phone-orders-re-charging-orders-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codedcommerce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codedcommerce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codedcommerce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codedcommerce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codedcommerce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/codedcommerce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codedcommerce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codedcommerce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codedcommerce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codedcommerce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}