Protection Rankings

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Total plugins62.8K
Active installs (est.)Under review
Data updatedJul 7, 2026
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# Plugin 24h 7d Growth % Next Milestone Estimated installs
365 NinjaFirewall (WP Edition) +0.1%
Not growing New installs and churn have reached parity — growth from here is event-driven.
 171.6K100K+ official
409 Email Address Encoder +0.1%
Not growing New installs and churn have reached parity — growth from here is event-driven.
 151.3K100K+ official
859 Image Watermark 1
Not growing New installs and churn have reached parity — growth from here is event-driven.
 46.8K40K+ official
924 Protect Uploads ~0% Losing ~35 installs/week (about -0.01%/day). A real decline at this scale, even though it rounds to ~0% over 7 days.
9.7K ▸ 30K Losing ~35 installs/week — a projection toward 30K, not a death clock; declining plugins can stabilize.
 39.7K30K+ official
941 NinjaScanner 1 +0.1%
Not growing New installs and churn have reached parity — growth from here is event-driven.
 39.4K30K+ official
1,179 Zero Spam for WordPress 1 ~0% Losing ~16 installs/week (about -0.01%/day). A real decline at this scale, even though it rounds to ~0% over 7 days.
Dipping Losing installs slowly — an early-warning sign that a steeper decline may be setting in.
 28.6K20K+ official
1,880 Prevent Direct Access ~0% Gaining ~34 installs/week (about +0.03%/day). Real growth at this scale, even though it rounds to ~0% over 7 days.
3.7K ▸ 20K ~365+d At the current pace, the next install milestone is more than a year away.
 16.3K10K+ official
1,997 WP Content Copy Protection 1 +0.1%
4.9K ▸ 10K Losing ~76 installs/week — a projection toward 10K, not a death clock; declining plugins can stabilize.
 14.9K10K+ official
3,074 WP-Copyright-Protection 2 -0.2%
867 ▸ 5K Losing ~16 installs/week — a projection toward 5K, not a death clock; declining plugins can stabilize.
 5.9K5K+ official
4,485 ContentProtector 1 1 -0.1%
866 ▸ 2K Losing ~345 installs/week — a projection toward 2K, not a death clock; declining plugins can stabilize.
 2.9K2K+ official
4,724 IP Ban 3 6 +0.1%
Not growing New installs and churn have reached parity — growth from here is event-driven.
 2.7K2K+ official
5,018 No-Bot Registration 3 +0.3%
628 ▸ 3K ~337d Growing, but slowly — recent install growth is low relative to the plugin's size.
 2.4K2K+ official
5,951 DMCA Protection Badge 13 +0.2%
Not growing New installs and churn have reached parity — growth from here is event-driven.
 1.7K1K+ official
6,339 NETSENSAI Shield -0.3%
418 ▸ 2K ~365+d At the current pace, the next install milestone is more than a year away.
 1.6K1K+ official
6,494 WebDefender Security 1 2 -0.3%
Dipping Losing installs slowly — an early-warning sign that a steeper decline may be setting in.
 1.5K1K+ official
6,728 Photection 1 10 -1.0%
Dipping Losing installs slowly — an early-warning sign that a steeper decline may be setting in.
 1.4K1K+ official
7,279 WebTotem Security 35 -1.2% 959900+ official
7,337 Sessions 2 9 -0.7% 940900+ official
7,475 htaccess protect 4 -0.1% 889800+ official
7,522 JetHost Total Care 6 22 +0.3% 881800+ official
7,662 Media Vault 4 -0.1% 851800+ official
8,885 Route ‑ Shipping Protection 38 -0.2% 581500+ official
10,041 Simple Password Protect 1 16 -1.4% 417400+ official
10,523 Really Simple CAPTCHA for cformsII 8 6 ~0% 376300+ official
10,869 Captchinoo, admin login page protection with Go… 15 27 +0.9% 352300+ official
10,971 Basic Security 2 6 +0.3% 342300+ official
11,150 Captcha.eu 4 10 +0.9% 320300+ official
11,940 Spam Master 2 27 -0.4% 276200+ official
12,044 Limit Login Attempts (Spam Protection) 4 61 +0.7% 272200+ official
12,052 Password Protection Expiration 7 8 ~0% 272200+ official
12,224 SAR One Click Security 4 25 +0.4% 265200+ official
13,607 LH Private BuddyPress 5 1 ~0% 192100+ official
16,922 Good Question 13 20 -1.0% 9890+ official
17,022 ShieldUp 1 36 ~0% 9790+ official
17,430 Norton Shopping Guarantee with Package Protecti… 17 137 +1.1% 8980+ official
17,473 Image Protection 49 6 ~0% 8980+ official
17,726 Download Monitor integration for WooCommerce 2 134 -1.1% 8780+ official
17,834 Page Protection 48 89 ~0% 8580+ official
18,218 Access Defender 18 43 ~0% 7970+ official
18,229 Private BuddyPress 15 50 ~0% 7970+ official
18,656 WP Content Protection 18 8 -2.6% 7570+ official
21,223 EmailScrambler 29 101 ~0% 4940+ official
22,459 Botfaqtor Code 21 105 -2.4% 4140+ official
22,526 WP Firewall 53 141 -7.1% 3930+ official
22,792 POWER CAPTCHA 29 253 ~0% 3930+ official
23,017 Frontend HTTP Auth Protection 92 70 ~0% 3930+ official
24,230 Private Captcha 44 217 -5.6% 3430+ official
24,800 Configurable Hotlink Protection 30 63 ~0% 2920+ official
24,819 GhostTrap 53 57 ~0% 2920+ official
25,816 NP Formshield 1 -3.4% 2820+ official
27,239 Proxy Hacking Protection 97 85 -17.9% 2320+ official
28,289 Seriously Simple Spam Blocker 151 687 ~0% 1910+ official
28,861 Search Protection 146 20 ~0% 1910+ official
29,837 Anti DDOS/BOT reCAPTCHA Protection 196 163 ~0% 1910+ official
29,956 Document Library Hub 36 302 ~0% 1910+ official
30,525 InPlayer Paywall 354 94 ~0% 1910+ official
30,663 Carla WordPress Security Plugin 12 28 ~0% 1910+ official
30,671 Wxs Text Watermarking 1,002 ~0% 1910+ official
31,352 Spam Prevention for Contact Form 7 and Comments 132 442 ~0% 1910+ official
32,087 Force Login Pro 340 410 ~0% 1910+ official
32,645 Secure Owl Firewall 330 214 -5.3% 1810+ official
34,078 Blog Password Protection 10,456 +80.0% 1810+ official
34,498 Antispam Revolution 227 11,121 +5.9% 1810+ official
35,040 Chinese Comment Spam Protection 6,542 45 +13.3% 1710+ official
36,773 Content Protection 4,796 6,483 ~0% 1710+ official
37,460 User Cleaner 1,161 ~0% 1610+ official
37,718 IVGuard 2,074 2,854 +6.7% 1610+ official
41,723 PasswordSentry 3,060 124 ~0% 1410+ official
41,782 NoHackMe Defender 5,116 2,418 +27.3% 1410+ official
43,073 Security Assassin 198 3,171 -18.8% 1310+ official
44,268 Senthor 2,068 197 -29.4% 1210+ official
45,605 STAMPD.IO 6,382 7,764 -23.1% 1010+ official
45,738 DB Solution 5,562 8,138 -47.4% 1010+ official
46,759 RestArmor Security 8,858 3,993 ~0% Under review
46,925 HighPots Spam Protection 5,988 9,896 ~0% Under review
47,303 Puzzle Gate 6,956 5,000 ~0% Under review
47,426 Geosec 2,990 3,535 ~0% Under review
48,392 Carimbador Maluco 8,292 5,183 ~0% Under review
49,511 Extend Protection For WooCommerce 5,751 32 ~0% Under review
49,989 Cardea 1,833 2,953 ~0% Under review
50,299 Vanguard Admin Protection & Notifications 3,432 5,604 ~0% Under review
50,798 HappyFenceNG Total Enterprise Security 1,300 909 ~0% Under review
50,993 ingenidev Small Order Fee 5,034 3,499 ~0% Under review
51,253 EffortLess Login Protected Content ~0% Under review
51,846 Checkout Bot Shield 7,685 9,862 ~0% Under review
52,027 Lunexia .htaccess Shield 1,749 ~0% Under review
52,369 Dynamic Password 4,421 3,619 ~0% Under review
52,539 Pictia plugin 3,610 ~0% Under review
52,681 Atmosvere (Formerly Trusted Accounts) for WordP… 5,937 1,249 ~0% Under review
52,928 Samohyb GoodAccess 3,344 ~0% Under review
52,933 WM Secure and Optimize 3,610 3,096 ~0% Under review
53,297 Lock PHP Files 3,538 3,095 ~0% Under review
53,603 ingenidev CashOnDelivery Shield 3,159 6,679 ~0% Under review
53,764 Add Backlink or Copy Protection 3,255 ~0% Under review
53,858 Lockspire 3,439 3,669 ~0% Under review
54,007 Copyright Protected 7,660 ~0% Under review
54,985 zmadmin 5,871 ~0% Under review
55,218 WPSQR Media Protector 6,884 7,274 ~0% Under review
55,284 Genius Firewall 6,151 6,255 ~0% Under review
55,912 Protos Content Protection Lite 43 ~0% Under review