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Password Protected

Password Protected

Security User Roles & Access Control

Password Protected is a WordPress plugin for User Roles & Access Control. It ranks #2 of 87 in that group by active installs and was last updated 7 days ago.

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Slug password-protected

300K Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band
4.4 Rating out of 5 From 142 ratings
65 Releases Since 2 February 2012
Oct 2026 Last release 7 days ago

Maintenance check

Is Password Protected still maintained?

Yes - by every measure the directory publishes, it is actively maintained.

  • Updated recently. The last release was 7 days ago.
  • Tested with current WordPress. Tested up to 7.1.4; most actively maintained plugins are tested on 7.1.
  • Well rated. 4.4 out of 5 from 142 ratings.

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Standing

More installed than 99.6% of the directory

Ahead of 47,535 of the 47,734 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

99.6% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count
47,535 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one
198 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
2.8.6
Requires WordPress
6.5
Tested up to
7.1.4
Requires PHP
7.4
Added to the directory
2 February 2012
Last updated
30 October 2026
Contributors
1
Author
Saad Iqbal
Support threads resolved
2 of 2

Its own tags

  • maintenance mode
  • Password Protect
  • password protect page
  • password protection
  • restrict content

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