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WP Limit Login Attempts
A sturdy shield that offers almost no way to adjust the grip.
HealthyGrowing
68/100
The plugin blocks bots well but the free version lacks settings and support is poor.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.6★
300 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+6%
Growing
17 → 18 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 · +6% in the last year
17/day a year ago→18/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWP Limit Login Attempts is seen as a simple, effective blocker of automated login attempts, but users repeatedly criticize its free version’s lack of settings, poor support, and update restrictions.
What people like
- +Effectively blocks automated login attempts and bot intrusion×2
- +Works out of the box and runs reliably without user intervention×2
Common complaints
- −Free version provides no configurable settings and is effectively unusable×2
- −Support is absent or unresponsive×2
- −No updates after purchase; download limited to once per year
- −Plugin shows captcha repeatedly, causing failure
- −Triggers PHP session error in Site Health
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.46★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.60★
- 20%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
2023-10-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 300 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2025-06-27★★★★★Sehr gutmerovci
- 2023-11-27★★★★★Works nicely, thanks!lukasdobes1-shot
- 2023-10-07★★★★★topgertjan19541-shot
- 2022-10-17★★★★★Good Apprvjenterprises
- 2022-09-27★★★★★I do not recommend!digitocz
- 2022-09-02★★★★★its goodmcoino
- 2022-08-11★★★★★Good app!adumor
- 2022-08-09★★★★★Arshid states “No updates allowed after purchase & no support”gudiva
- 2021-09-27★★★★★Very good!!tranchu
- 2021-09-04★★★★★Doesnt work, ZERO settings in free version, not usefull at alllenaka
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.
18
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
20
Prior 7-day baseline
16
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
69
Mean release-day peak (30d)
13
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-10.0%
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
3.16
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
83%
5★ share in analyzed sample
20%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.46 → 4.46★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered