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PPWP – Password Protect Pages
Lock your pages easily but watch your bank account closely.
HealthyGrowing
68/100
Excellent support and easy setup are offset by reports of billing disputes.
Active installs
~35,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 30k+
Rating
4.7★
270 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+16%
Growing
227 → 264 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
Growing · +16% in the last year
227/day a year ago→264/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayPPWP is a well-regarded password protection plugin for WordPress with genuinely responsive free-tier support, but it carries serious caveats around billing disputes, refund refusals, and compatibility failures on paid plans.
What people like
- +Support team is consistently praised as fast, responsive, and knowledgeable, including on the free version×7
- +Easy to set up and works out of the box for basic password protection use cases×4
- +Adds password protection features not native to WordPress, such as blocking protected pages from RSS feeds and category-level protection×2
- +Support proactively provided custom code snippets to resolve a caching and anchor tag issue within 24 hours
Common complaints
- −Paid plans are expensive (cited at $180/year), which users find hard to justify for straightforward use cases×2
- −Plugin failed to work as advertised with custom post types and Divi/Elegant Themes despite pre-sale assurances from support; fixes required excessive code changes and broke the site
- −Refund requests ignored after compatibility failures, with support going silent once a refund was raised
- −Serious billing dispute reported: subscription charges continued more than a year after cancellation, with no response from the company despite repeated contact
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.39★Verified rating — drops from 4.70★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 32%One-shot reviewers — single-review accounts (common for popular plugins, but worth noting)
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 270 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-06★★★★★Excellent supportintelektual
- 2026-03-31★★★★★Works Well and Amazing Supportliwebguy
- 2025-11-24★★★★★Way too limiting for the free version and paid is too expensiveKindly Thrive Support
- 2025-02-24★★★★★Excellent service the PPWP team are very helpfulvfactoruk
- 2025-01-23★★★★★Thumbs up!McNitefly
- 2025-01-04★★★★★Excellent PPWP Lite product & Great supportsbdesh1-shot
- 2024-12-13★★★★★Top SupportMichael Krämer
- 2024-12-10★★★★★Very good plugin and very useful to protect the page or posttondosusanto
- 2024-11-28★★★★★More features, great supportqrusnell
- 2024-11-27★★★★★Parfaitlabearnaisedu64
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor 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.
334
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
230
Prior 7-day baseline
246
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
4,595
Mean release-day peak (30d)
289
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+45.2%
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.
12%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.14
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
86%
5★ share in analyzed sample
32%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.54 → 4.39★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered