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WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) – Security & Firewall
Stay invisible to bots by masking your site's digital footprints.
HealthyGrowing
88/100
The plugin provides effective path obfuscation but may conflict with certain hosting environments or other security tools.
Active installs
~150,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
4.5★
371 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+68%
Growing fast
368 → 617 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +68% in the last year
368/day a year ago→617/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) is well-regarded as a comprehensive WordPress security and obfuscation plugin with notably responsive support, though it can conflict with other security plugins, certain setups like WooCommerce, and hosting environments that use symlinked core files.
What people like
- +Responsive and helpful customer support, frequently praised by name×4
- +Works reliably alongside caching and SEO plugins without causing speed issues×2
- +Accessible to non-technical users, with guides and prompts that make setup manageable×2
- +Effective at protecting sites, with users reporting no hacks over extended use×3
- +Regular updates that improve protection over time
Common complaints
- −Can override configurations set by other security plugins when activated, potentially breaking existing security setups
- −Incompatibility with hosting environments that use symlinked core files, causing issues such as 404 errors for CSS
- −CSS/JS rewriting feature can make WordPress sluggish
- −Limited effectiveness for WooCommerce sites — does not fully obscure WooCommerce-specific elements
- −Support has been reported as dismissive of potential plugin or theme conflicts, insisting the plugin is faultless
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.52★Verified rating — drops from 4.50★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 29%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 371 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-03-18★★★★★A very, very great additiontguhany
- 2026-03-17★★★★★Muito bom, funcional e prático!Ivison Ramos
- 2026-02-12★★★★★WP Ghost has realy good supportAdrian McMaster
- 2026-01-09★★★★★A must havesebastian
- 2025-12-19★★★★★WP Ghost is a plugin you won't regret using.uknew
- 2025-12-19★★★★★Really best pluginbeartsi1-shot
- 2025-10-06★★★★★Great plugin but not compatible with NGINX server i.e. pressable.comuxdesign
- 2025-05-28★★★★★Great productnorzer
- 2025-05-05★★★★★5 Simple Steps to A+ Score for a Secure Websitesofasurfer75
- 2025-04-29★★★★★Warningreenamjain
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost)
Top Security plugins, ranked by score.For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
594
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
690
Prior 7-day baseline
480
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
10,660
Mean release-day peak (30d)
1,404
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
-13.9%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
19%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.70
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
88%
5★ share in analyzed sample
29%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.61 → 4.52★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered