Duo Universal
Easily add Duo authentication to your WordPress website. Enable multi-factor authentication for your admins and/or users.
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·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 2 months agoAs of April 2026, Duo Universal is a WordPress login plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 16K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.0.0+ and PHP 7.3.16+. Available on WordPress.org since 2024. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 24% this week. Top alternative: WPS Hide Login.
4/51 reviews
2.0K+active installs
16K+total downloads
2 yearssince 2024
Overview
The Duo Universal plugin protects against account takeover by augmenting WordPress logins with multi-factor authentication. Adding Duo is easy and can be done in just a few minutes!
By leveraging Duo’s Universal Prompt, authentications can now use passkeys, biometrics and hardware tokens in addition to phone-based authentication methods. This keeps accounts secure if an attacker learns a user’s login credentials and provides flexible authentication options.
Duo is easy to set up and use. With Duo there’s no extra hardware or complicated software to install, just sign up for Duo’s service and install the plugin. Then you can set which user roles you want to enable multi-factor authentication for admins, editors, authors, contributors, and/or subscribers without setting up user accounts, di…
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
A Good Login Plugin for WP
by ankushdas·1 year ago
I use Wordfence on my websites for essential security protection. Sure, the 2FA method is available for free, and is plenty good for most.
However, I have been fascinated with log-in prompts recently, and it saves so much time with the websites that support it. So, I thought, why not add it to my WordPress site? And, in my journey to explore, I found Duo Universal. It’s entirely free for up to 10 users – meaning, 10 WordPress applications, (don’t get confused when it asks to create a “Trial account”).
Unfortunately, the passkeys functionality is only applicable to the devices you created it in during the trial period. While you can use existing passkeys on the OS you created it in, you cannot create new ones after the trial period ends.
Wish the pricing plan was geared towards individuals, but the premium edition needs you to purchase a subscription for 10 users at once, at the very least :/
Moreover, you get to customize your branded logo + background for free.
I have tested the plugin on two of my websites (WordPress 6.5.2) with different combination of plugins that include: Wordfence, SEOPress, RankMath, Really Simple SSL, Akismet, Malcare, Updraft Backups, and LightSpeed Cache
p.s: I hope more people rate it, and the information for the plugin is updated to “Tested with latest WordPress version”
Download Trends
Today: 26Yesterday: 36This week: 149Period total: 10K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.0.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.3.16+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.2
94.8%
Other
5.3%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.2.1
- Adds support for new Duo certificate authorities.
Contributors
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