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Is Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content still maintained?

Its last release was 1 month ago. Shipping normally.

Maintenance
ACTIVE
shipping normally — last release 2026-07-30.
Active installs
300k
as the directory reports it, in buckets — a floor rather than a count.
Rating
4.4★
from 139 ratings. 0% of 2 support threads resolved.

This measures maintenance, not quality. A small, finished plugin that genuinely needed no changes in three years grades ABANDONED here and may still be the right choice. What the grade tells you is whether anyone is there if something breaks.

By Saad Iqbal, tested up to WordPress 7.0.4. Listing on wordpress.org.

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Selected mechanically, not editorially: shipped within 12 months, 1,000+ installs, and 3.5 stars or better where 10+ people rated it. Ranked by install count. Nobody paid to be on this list and there is nothing to pay for.

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