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Formula04 Site Lock

by Verb_Form04 · Security

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Put a sitewide password on your site. Users must enter password before viewing content.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
41 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

41 health vs 64 average across 997 Security plugins

10+

Active installs

≈19 estimated

4.6K

Total downloads

since 2014

3.60★

Rating (adjusted)

3.0★ raw · 6 reviews

-5%

54

Downloads · 30d

category median +14%

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.30, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

39 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 9/100
Rating quality 55/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3238 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-5% vs prior 30d
1Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

54

now · peak 135

5430d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Formula04 Site Lock · #31540 you PPWP · #982 Google Authenticator · #1168 Passster · #2008

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

5.4Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.5 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
10–20 ≈19

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2019-09-22 · 1,384 observations

10Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 6 reviews

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5★
3 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
3

Details

Version
1.5.4
Last updated
8.9y ago
Added
2014-11-18 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
3.5.0
Tested up to
4.8.30
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ Teresa Lo
    8.6y ago

    The whitelist page displayed just fine, but click on any other page or post results in a URL with redirect, and no way to enter the selected password.

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  2. ★★★★★ Jason Robinson
    8.9y ago

    Broke site “too many redirects”. Even when turned off!

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  3. ★★★★★ Daniel Hendricks
    9.1y ago

    I can has namespaces? Classes? Exception handling? Anonymous functions? Consistent indentation and structure? Dignity? Hokum!

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  4. ★★★★★ seb-romeo
    10.4y ago

    PERFECT !! I love the fact it’s simple, easy and we can use a custom page or form to enter the password ! Just a little word for the developper : the shortcode you provided in “usage” as a whitespace between brackets and content, and when you copy/paste it as it is it will not work straight. Also you should put that shortcode in the explanation for simplier understanding..

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  5. ★★★★★ Verb_Form04
    11.4y ago

    Oh yeah baby.

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  6. ★★★★★ verbwit
    11.4y ago

    Thanks!

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3.2

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✕ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✕ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2024-06-04 20+ → 10+ down after 144 days in tier
  2. 2024-01-12 10+ → 20+ up after 39 days in tier
  3. 2023-12-04 20+ → 10+ down

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