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NinjaFirewall (WP Edition) – Advanced Security Plugin and Firewall
All the protection of a heavy firewall without the performance penalty.
HealthyDeclining
89/100
Users love this lightweight firewall for its effective protection and lack of intrusive ads.
Active installs
~150,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
4.9★
219 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-18%
Declining
733 → 600 installs/day
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
Declining · -18% in the last year
733/day a year ago→600/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayNinjaFirewall is well-regarded as a lightweight, effective WordPress firewall that users trust for real-world attack prevention, with no notable complaints surfacing across the reviewed set.
What people like
- +Lightweight and does not slow down the site, with several users noting a performance improvement after switching from heavier alternatives like Wordfence×3
- +Effective at blocking real attacks and malicious bots, including in full WAF mode before requests consume server resources×4
- +Easy to set up and use, described as intuitive by multiple users×5
- +No intrusive ads or upsell prompts within the plugin
- +Responsive and professional developer support×2
- +Free tier considered genuinely useful, with at least one user voluntarily purchasing a license to support development
Common complaints
Review trustReviews look organic
- 5.00★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 11%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 · 219 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-04-07★★★★★Perfect safety recordmschwehla
- 2026-04-07★★★★★One of THE MOST useful (and free!) plugins out thereMihail Bogatov
- 2026-01-31★★★★★Great pluginVu Tru So
- 2025-12-16★★★★★An ACTUAL Firewall for WordPressCPX
- 2025-10-09★★★★★Excellent plugindemuis1-shot
- 2025-09-27★★★★★WORKS FOR MEhybridcopywriter
- 2025-08-01★★★★★fast, lightweight and simple to set updomzub
- 2025-05-30★★★★★Effective And LightJeffKeller
- 2025-05-12★★★★★No Fuss FirewallNicholas Birch
- 2025-05-06★★★★★Great Firewallhoedan
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to NinjaFirewall (WP Edition)
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.
585
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
485
Prior 7-day baseline
436
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,215
Mean release-day peak (30d)
533
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+20.6%
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.
10%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.14
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
99%
5★ share in analyzed sample
11%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
+33%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.97 → 5.00★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered