WordPress.com has an extra authenticatiestap added to blogging platforms. Those who enable the feature, in addition to his password for his smartphone-generated code. For now, the feature is only available for WordPress hosted blogs.
The implementation of two-factor authentication by WordPress.com makes use of the Google Authenticator app for iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone, according to a blog post. That application generates back every half minute a new code, based on a key which only the server WordPress.com know. The code must be entered at login, after entering the password.
Therefore, his accounts are better protected, promises to be the blogging platforms. The feature is optional, and those who do not have a smartphone can codes to send via sms. The last time it introduced a lot of internet companies, including Google, Facebook and Dropbox, support for the more secure logon method.
At the moment the functionality is only available for blogs on WordPress.com be hosted, and not yet for weblogs that open-source software of WordPress itself running. A developer of WordPress, Gary Pendergas, writes that WordPress currently looking at how the functionality could be rolled out to those blogs, but that there is currently still no concrete plan for. There is a unofficial plugin that two-factor authentication to add.
