Login security and access controls
The leading plugins vary in adoption, ratings, and how recently they were updated—signals readers can compare when considering login protection.
- WPS Hide Login: 2 million active installs, an excellent rating with many reviews, and an update 2 months ago.
- Loginizer and Security Optimizer: 1 million installs each and excellent ratings; both were updated this month.
- Limit Login Attempts: 300,000 installs and an excellent rating, but its latest update was 43 months ago.
- Login Lockdown & Protection and WPS Limit Login: 100,000 installs each. The former has a good rating and was updated this month; the latter has an excellent rating and was updated 1 month ago.
Custom login pages and user registration
Custom-login and registration tags point to a distinct group of plugins alongside the category’s security-focused listings.
- Related tags include custom-login, register, registration, users, and admin.
- LoginPress has 200,000 active installs; Custom Login Page Customizer has 80,000.
- Theme My Login and WP-Members Membership Plugin each have 50,000 active installs.
How login plugins overlap with security and authentication
The largest overlaps connect Login with security, authentication, and admin-related plugins.
There are 232 plugins shared with security, 119 with authentication, and 96 with admin. Other connections include custom-login (69), register (50), registration and brute-force (48 each), wp-login (43), password (40), and users (37). This spread shows that the category groups together plugins associated with different login and account-management concerns.
Adoption and maintenance across the login category
Adoption is concentrated among a small number of plugins, while update recency varies across the category.
Of 871 plugins, 8 have at least 100,000 active installs and 36 have at least 10,000. That places the most widely installed options within a relatively small part of the category.
Overall, 44% were updated in the last year. Some prominent listings were updated this month, while Limit Login Attempts was last updated 43 months ago; comparing update recency alongside installs and ratings can help readers assess the differences between listings.