With Rename Plugins Folder you can rename the plugins folder. This is an underestimated way to increase the security of your installation.
As of April 2026, Rename Plugins Folder is a WordPress security plugin with 300 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.7K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2021. Top alternative: Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware….
Usually, for security reasons, people rename any kind of folder, but they don’t rename the plugins folder.
Renaming the plugins folder makes the protection of your website stronger.
Bad robots scan the net to find websites that have vulnerable plugins.
Most of the time they detect the plugins by checking the path wp-content/plugins in the page HTML.
If instead of wp-content/plugins the path is for example wp-content/extensions, probably the bad robot will not detect any plugin.
This plugin just renames the plugins folder and updates the wp-config.php file to make work your website with the new folder name.
It doesn’t save anything in the database.
It’s for the users who don’t know how to modify the wp-config.php file, if you know it, of course you don’t reall…
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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