Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
Limit Login Attempts Security – Login Security, 2FA, Firewall, Brute Force Prevention
Active installs1,000,000+ rounded
Current authorWPChef
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release2 months ago 23 Sep 2026
Support3 / 8 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record134
Rating4.8 /5 · 1,488
Added to directory03 Aug 2016
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date
PluginsPedia reports published data and observable changes. It does not rate plugin quality or safety, infer intent, or make recommendations. These are observations rather than a verdict. How this works
Ownership
Held by WPChef throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.
Full observed history, including every field transition
Committing accounts
Read from the plugin’s public release log, so these predate this registry. A committing account is not an owner. Thirty accounts commit to WooCommerce and it has never changed hands.
| Account | Releases | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| wpchefgadget | 128 | 05 Sep 2016 | 08 Jul 2026 |
This registry did not observe a transfer; it read these names off a public log. Whether that reflects a change of ownership is not something the directory publishes.
Adoption
How widely the plugin is installed, and what the people running it think of it. WordPress.org rounds install figures to one significant digit, so they describe an order of magnitude rather than a headcount.
Very widely adopted: 1,000,000+ active installs. In the top tier of the directory by install count.
11,606 downloads a day over the last 7 days, steady against the 7 days before. Downloads are counted exactly and without a ceiling, so they show movement the rounded install figure cannot.
11 Sep 2026peak 782,549/day31 Oct 2026
15 ratings left in the last 82 days, averaging 4.9 out of 5 against a lifetime average of 4.8. Recent ratings are in line with the lifetime figure.
From recent reviews
What reviewers wrote on wordpress.org between 18 Jun 2026 and 08 Sep 2026: 24 reviews, counted by theme. Every count links to the reviews behind it.
Among the 24 reviews posted between June and September 2026, 15 offer brief general praise, calling Limit Login Attempts Reloaded straightforward or effective without detailing why. Four reviewers credit it specifically with blocking brute-force login attempts or bot activity, one pairing it with Wordfence for extra coverage. Three reviewers report that a recent update silently re-enabled weekly or monthly email notifications they had not requested, with one agency reviewer calling the change disruptive for client-managed sites.
- 15 of 24 describe the plugin as working well or simply doing the job, without giving specifics. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]
- 4 of 24 credit the plugin with blocking brute-force login attempts or bot attacks on their site. [1] [2] [3] [4]
- 3 of 24 report that a recent update silently enabled email notifications they had not opted into. [1] [2] [3]
Counted from the public review forum on 09 Sep 2026. The reviews are their authors’ own words and their own claims; the counts are ours.
Daily record
Every field we record, one column per observation. Fields that never moved are named once rather than repeated across every column. A row of identical numbers would be padding.
| Field | 18 Oct | 19 Oct | 20 Oct | 21 Oct | 22 Oct | 23 Oct | 24 Oct | 25 Oct | 26 Oct | 27 Oct | 28 Oct | 29 Oct | 30 Oct | 31 Oct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 6,554 | 9,531 | 10,739 | 18,101 | 21,343 | 13,442 | 7,938 | 7,295 | 10,311 | 9,941 | 8,990 | 14,015 | 22,749 |
| Ratings total | 1,487 | 1,487 | 1,487 | 1,487 | 1,488 | 1,488 | 1,488 | 1,488 | 1,488 | 1,488 | 1,488 | 1,488 | 1,488 | 1,488 |
| Support threads | 12 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Threads resolved | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Unchanged throughout: active installs (1,000,000+) · version (3.3.10)
91 days of observation, most recent 14 shown.
Maintenance
When it was last released, and how far its declared compatibility has drifted from current WordPress.
Added to directory10 years ago 03 Aug 2016
Requires WP5.0
Requires PHPfalse
Version lagcurrent
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 23 Sep 2026, 46 days ago.
- Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- 3 of 8 support threads answered in the last two months.
- The same account maintains 5 other plugins, 2 of which were updated in the last 90 days. the account is active.
A plugin that does one thing correctly may need no changes for years; a long gap is not, by itself, evidence of neglect.
History
Everything dated that this registry holds about the plugin, most recent first. Releases carry the author’s own release date; everything else is dated to when it was observed.
Entries marked from the release log predate this registry, and daily observation began 02 Aug 2026. They were read from the plugin’s public SVN history after the fact, not watched as they happened. Everything else was observed directly.
- 23 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 3.3.10 released
- 17 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 3.3.9 released
- 10 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 3.3.8 released
- 01 Sep 20262 months agoVersion 3.3.7 released
- 31 Aug 20262 months agoVersion 3.3.6 released
- 12 Aug 20263 months agoVersion 3.3.5 released
- 02 Aug 20263 months agoFirst observed by PluginsPediaDaily snapshots of this plugin’s directory record begin here. Everything above this line is observed; anything before it comes from fields the API itself reports.
- 08 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 3.3.4 released
- 07 Jul 20264 months agoVersion 3.3.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpchefgadget.
- 24 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 3.3.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpchefgadget.
- 16 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 3.3.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpchefgadget.
- 15 Jun 20265 months agoVersion 3.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpchefgadget.
- 19 May 20266 months agoVersion 3.2.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpchefgadget.
- 18 May 20266 months agoVersion 3.2.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpchefgadget.
- 11 May 20266 months agoVersion 3.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpchefgadget.
- 07 May 20266 months agoVersion 3.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpchefgadget.
- 22 Apr 20267 months agoVersion 3.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpchefgadget.
- 09 Apr 20267 months agoVersion 3.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpchefgadget.
- 26 Mar 20267 months agoVersion 3.0.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpchefgadget.
- 25 Mar 20267 months agoVersion 3.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wpchefgadget.
- 05 Sep 201610 years ago115 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 05 Sep 2016 and 19 Mar 2026. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 03 Aug 201610 years agoAdded to the WordPress.org directoryReported by the plugin API as the date this plugin was added.
Media coverage
Writing about this plugin elsewhere, collected by this registry. The links go to the sources; what they claim is theirs.
- 17 Aug 2026 · Limit Login Attempts Reloaded < 3.3.5 – Username Denylist Bypass via Case Variant and Account Email (CVE-2026-18356)WPScan
- 23 Mar 2026 · Introducing Multi-Factor Authentication in Limit Login Attempts Reloaded 3.0Limit Login Attempts
What we know, and what we don’t
Everything on this page in one place, including the gaps, so that nothing here is mistaken for a clean bill of health.
What we know
- It has been held by WPChef for all 91 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 2 months ago (23 Sep 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
- WordPress.org reports 1,000,000+ active installs.
- It carries 1,488 ratings, averaging 4.8 out of 5.
- 3 of 8 support threads in the last two months are marked resolved.
Every record on this site, this one included, works under the same limits. We read what WordPress.org publishes about a plugin, never the plugin’s own code, so nothing here says whether a plugin is well built or safe. Install counts reach us already rounded; a change smaller than a band step doesn’t show. We don’t track security advisories yet. For anything older than our first observation we rely on the plugin’s public release log, where one exists. What this registry can and cannot see
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