This is another 5 minutes setup to enhance your wordpress security. This method minimizes hacking to your blog’s admin account by setting the white list IP address which you normally log into your wp account. The trick is to make use of .htaccess file. This is the content of the .htaccess file that you will put in the /wp-admin folder.

AuthUserFile /dev/null
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName “Example Access Control”
AuthType Basic
<LIMIT GET>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx     # your ip address
allow from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx      # ip address white list
</LIMIT>

How to find out your ip address? Just google “what is my ip address”