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Rename Plugins Folder

With Rename Plugins Folder you can rename the plugins folder. This is an underestimated way to increase the security of your installation.

By Jose Mortellaro·Security·Free
5(3 reviews)
·300 active installs·Updated 3 months ago
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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….

5/53 reviews
300active installs
4.7K+total downloads
5 yearssince 2021

Overview

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…

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Ratings & Reviews

53 reviews
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1 ★
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Compatibility

WordPress4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4
PHP5.6+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

0.0.1

  • First release
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Contributors

Jose MortellaroJose Mortellaro
Plugin Info
Version
0.0.1
Last Updated
Dec 10, 2025
WP Requires
4.6+
Tested Up To
6.9.4
PHP Requires
5.6+
Active Installs
300
Downloads
4.7K+
Added
Feb 17, 2021
Business
Free

Tags

securityrename plugins folder

Developer

J
Jose Mortellaro
55 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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