Password Change Reminder
by Ralf Albert · Admin & Utilities
Password Change Reminder helps to raise the security of your WordPress installation with little effort. It will remind the users to regularly change t …
42 health vs 53 average across 3,004 Admin & Utilities plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 12+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41, 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 4618 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-08 · 1,378 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
54
now · peak 148
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
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
At the current install trend, crossing 200+ in roughly 157 days.
Install history · since 2022-10-07 · 1,376 observations
Details
- Version
- 0.2.20131123
- Last updated
- 12.7y ago
- Added
- 2013-11-24 · 12 yrs on WP
- Requires WP
- 3.5
- Tested up to
- 3.7.41
- Requires PHP
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Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-05-23 80+ → 100+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-05-22 20+ → 80+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-05-21 10+ → 20+ up
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Admin Menu Editor 300K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
Google Authenticator 20K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A -
LWS Tools 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A -
WPMasterToolKit (WPMTK) – All in one plugin 5K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security 5M+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
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