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Remember Me Controls

by Scott Reilly · Privacy & Consent

Also makes 50 other plugins · 78.1K+ installs across the portfolio →

Have "Remember Me" checked by default on the login page and configure how long a login is remembered. Or disable the feature altogether.

⚠ Stale⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
55 Health · C
Maintenance 26/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

55 health vs 66 average across 513 Privacy & Consent plugins

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.

68 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 35/100
WP compatibility 88/100
Rating quality 59/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 724 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 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+81% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

432

now · peak 3.3K

41730d 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

Remember Me Controls · #3541 you Always Remember Me · #10546 Sessions · #7174 WPS Hide Login · #27

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.3Stars · Aug 26

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.

104per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

2.0y ago

latest release · v2.1

16

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.1 · 2.0y ago2.0.1 · 3.2y ago2.0 · 3.2y ago1.9.1 · 5.5y ago1.9 · 6.1y ago1.8.1 · 6.7y ago1.8 · 7.2y ago1.7 · 8.3y ago1.6 · 10.4y ago1.5 · 11.5y ago1.4 · 12.6y ago1.3 · 12.6y ago1.2 · 14.7y ago1.1 · 15.1y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 72% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.1 72%
v1.9 16%
v2.0 8.7%
Older / other versions 2.6%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “4K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
4K–5K ≈4.9K

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

Install history · since 2016-03-26 · 1,429 observations

4KInstalls · 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.

Details

Version
2.1
Last updated
2.0y ago
Added
2010-09-27 · 15 yrs old
Requires WP
5.5
Tested up to
6.6.7
Requires PHP

Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. 2024-09-01 Version 2.1 Highlights: This minor release primarily updates the plugin framework to the most current version (for security hardening and miscellaneous improvements), prevents translations from containing unintended markup, notes co 2.1
  2. 2023-06-19 Version 2.0.1 Highlights: This is minor bugfix release fixes the plugin settings page’s info banner that reports the current remembered session duration. When the WordPress default remembered session duration (of “14 days”) is applica 2.0.1
  3. 2023-06-14 Version 2.0 Highlights: This is a recommended and notable release that improves the labeling, help text, data display, and functionality of the plugin’s settings page; restructures the unit tests; verifies compatibility through Word 2.0

Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

  1. 2024-09-05 CVE-2024-7415 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Affects <= 2.0.1 Patched in 2.1

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.6.1

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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 2 languages, 0 at 90% or more

German 50%
Russian 47%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2023-12-29 5K+ → 4K+ down

Competes with

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