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SiteGuard WP Plugin
A lightweight lock that leaves the window wide open.
HealthyGrowing
77/100
Simple to set up but technical flaws undermine its core security promises.
Active installs
~550,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 500k+
Rating
4.3★
15 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+200%
Growing fast
578 → 1,732 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 fast · +200% in the last year
578/day a year ago→1,732/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySiteGuard WP Plugin is a straightforward security plugin that users find easy to use, but it carries notable functional limitations including multisite incompatibility, a login-URL rename feature that can be trivially bypassed, and session/redirect behavior that undermines its core security promises.
What people like
- +Described as simple and easy to use with a flexible interface×2
- +Considered effective at providing a layer of protection against automated access attempts×2
Common complaints
- −Not supported in WordPress multisite mode — features do not work
- −The renamed login URL can be exposed by appending a simple string to the domain, undermining the core obfuscation feature
- −Logging out does not properly close the session, allowing continued access to wp-admin after logout
- −Redirecting wp-admin to the custom login URL reveals the new login page location, reducing its security value×2
- −Enabling the admin page access restriction causes a loopback request failure in WordPress Site Health, though this was reportedly resolved in version 1.5.1 (since 1.5.1)
- −CAPTCHA implementation is considered outdated compared to modern alternatives like Google reCAPTCHA
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.23★Verified rating — drops from 4.30★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 13%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 33% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 15 total
Latest reviews · 15 analyzed
- 2024-11-27★★★★★Unsafealexbrowp
- 2023-07-27★★★★★.wpuserjp202306t
- 2023-06-23★★★★★ログイン保護に利用していますFumiki Takahashi
- 2020-12-30★★★★★解決済/ループバックリクエストでの問題(サイトヘルス)tsutlnps149
- 2020-09-15★★★★★Multisite is not supportedT. Sagawa
- 2020-08-31★★★★★Good Supportlw531-shot
- 2020-06-07★★★★★Very effective toolvaclavek
- 2018-12-12★★★★★ログインしていない状態で/wp-admin/にアクセスするとurl変更したログイン画面にリダイレクトされてしまうAnonymous User 16694661
- 2017-10-29★★★★★Great tool, simple yet powerful.unostar
- 2017-09-29★★★★★大変良いプラグインですTomo
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.
1,723
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
2,130
Prior 7-day baseline
1,218
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
2,888
Mean release-day peak (30d)
1,658
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-19.1%
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.
33%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
3.32
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
73%
5★ share in analyzed sample
13%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.33 → 4.23★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered