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Is JWT Authentication for WP REST APIs still maintained?

Its last release was 1 month ago. Shipping normally.

Maintenance
ACTIVE
shipping normally — last release 2026-08-04.
Active installs
20k
as the directory reports it, in buckets — a floor rather than a count.
Rating
4.4★
from 74 ratings. no support threads to resolve.

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 miniOrange, tested up to WordPress 7.0.4. Listing on wordpress.org.

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