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BBQ Firewall
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Plugin audit
BBQ Firewall
BBQ Firewall is solid but leaving growth on the table.
Active installs
100K+
Rating
4.9★
wp.org · 160 reviews
Downloads / 30d
13.9K
Momentum
-13%
30d vs the 30d before
Against 1778 tracked Security plugins: health 91 vs 66 average · rating, weighted for review count, 4.9★ vs 3.8★.
What we found
Downloads are cooling
Needs work30-day download momentum is -13% while the Security category median is +3%. The decline is steeper than the market, which points at something plugin-specific.
What to do: A coordinated content and outreach push can re-ignite installs.
Readme fails 2 of 8 AI readiness checks
OpportunityAI assistants recommend what they can quote. Failing: names who it is for and headings and lists. Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
What to do: Rewrite the readme so each failed check passes: say the job in the first line, answer real questions in the FAQ, name who it is for and what it works with, and use headings and lists. For the same check on your plugin's own website, run the free AI visibility scan from AgentVania.
Run the free AI visibility scan →Light support activity. Few recent support threads, so there is no backlog to report.
Actively maintained. Updated within the last quarter, a strong trust and ranking signal.
No open vulnerabilities recorded. No unpatched security advisory is recorded against this plugin.
Downloads, last 2 years
From our own archive, not wp.org's current-week figure.
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