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Authenticator

Authenticator

Security User Roles & Access Control

Authenticator is a WordPress plugin for User Roles & Access Control. It ranks #41 of 87 in that group by active installs and was last updated 10 months ago.

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Slug authenticator

1K Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band
5.0 Rating out of 5 From 8 ratings
10 Releases Since 17 August 2008
Jan 2026 Last release 10 months ago

Maintenance check

Is Authenticator still maintained?

Mostly - but at least one sign below is worth checking before you rely on it.

  • No release for a while. The last one was 10 months ago.
  • Slightly behind on testing. Tested up to 6.9.11, while current plugins are tested on 7.1.

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Standing

More installed than 85.6% of the directory

Ahead of 40,835 of the 47,729 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

85.6% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count
40,835 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one
6,893 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band
How to read that

The directory rounds install counts hard and publishes them as bands, so two plugins showing the same number are not necessarily level. The percentile is computed over the plugins that report a count at all, which excludes the quarter of the directory sitting on the reporting floor.

Details

The record

Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.

Current version
1.3.1
Requires WordPress
5.0
Tested up to
6.9.11
Requires PHP
5.6
Added to the directory
17 August 2008
Last updated
21 January 2026
Contributors
4
Author
Syde GmbH (formerly Inpsyde)

Its own tags

  • access
  • accessible
  • authentification
  • login
  • members

Free text typed by the plugin author. The statistics page explains why they are not a taxonomy.

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