WP Hardening (discontinued)
The WP Hardening is a one-click tool to fix standard security recommendations on your WordPress website.
4(20 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, WP Hardening (discontinued) is a WordPress discontinued plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4/5 rating from 20 reviews. It has been downloaded 130K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.3+ and PHP 5.3+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 26% this week. Top alternative: Discontinued Product Stock Status for….
4/520 reviews
10K+active installs
130K+total downloads
7 yearssince 2019
Overview
WP Hardening is a tool which performs a real-time security audit of your website to find missing security best practices. Using our ‘Security Fixer’ you can also fix these with a single click from your WordPress backend.
Discontinuation Notice
IMPORTANT: This plugin is discontinued
This is to inform you that this plugin is no longer being maintained or updated. We have placed a discontinuation request with the WordPress team, and the plugin will soon be ‘closed’ for new installations.
This plugin was launched as a side project and has sadly reached the end of its journey. Thank you for your understanding and for using our plugin. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
What This Means for You
- No Further Updates: There will be no more updates, bug fixes, or new fea…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Moving on
by VForce·1 month ago
Initially bought a lifetime deal from them about 4-5 years back. It seems sometime in the last 2 years they’ve completely dropped their wordpress security services and are providing REALLY expensive pentesting services whatever that is. But they’ve completely dropped this arm of their business and that’s apparent by their security plugin not being updated in awhile.
It’s sending e-mails without my permission!!!
by Murat·1 year ago
It is sending me stupid e-mails from my own e-mail account without my permission!
Dead plugin
by 8bit7·2 years ago
No support answers in forever, not even sure the devs come to the support forum anymore. No updates in forever and don’t expect any.
The developers have moved on and now that this plugin is aging it’s causing errors and there’s no hope for a fix. Really a shame because this was the best lightweight wp security plugin.
WP Hardening does not accept WP 6.2
by Agfuente·3 years ago
If you did the update for WP 6.2., the creating new post post command will not work. Desactive the extension “wp hardening” and it will be possible again.
Regards
- This topic was modified 3 years ago by Agfuente.
I like it – However ..
by Krammig·4 years ago·1 reply
Overall it is quite a decent plugin.
I like the way it apples some practical protection right at install time, namely, API JSON lockdown etc.
However – the File Permission Checker – is pretty useless. A big list of files/folder with 775 664 etc listed. So, big deal. What it is missing here obviously is a Click to Fix type function. For a user to then have to wade through the list and modify one by one via some other process is a pain and just not practical.
Looking forward to the next version that is a bit more polished.
- This topic was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by Krammig.
Download Trends
Today: 17Yesterday: 28This week: 120Period total: 8K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.3+ requiredTested up to 6.0.11 |
| PHP | 5.3+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.2
99.5%
v1.1
0.5%
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Changelog
1.2 – January 31, 2020
* Improvement: Add security headers to the HTTP response
* Improvement: Changing the frequency of Hardening audits
* Improvement: Configure emails to be sent to upto 15 people
* Fix: jQuery bug on fixers page
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