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Is Prevent Direct Access – Protect WordPress Files still maintained?

Its last release was this month. Shipping normally.

Maintenance
ACTIVE
shipping normally — last release 2026-08-27.
Active installs
10k
as the directory reports it, in buckets — a floor rather than a count.
Rating
4.7★
from 295 ratings. 0% of 1 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 WP Folio Team, tested up to WordPress 7.1. Listing on wordpress.org.

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