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Security Headers

by SimonRWaters · Uncategorized

Plug-in to ease the setting of TLS headers for HSTS and similar

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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48 Health · D
Maintenance 3
Rating quality 84
Support 70

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,379 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-18%
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Trailing 30-day total · the growth curve wp.org stopped showing

Directory rank

Popularity rank over time · lower is better

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 “3K+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
3K–4K ≈3.4K

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

Install trend · reconstructed from 1379 daily snapshots

Details

Version
1.1
Last updated
7.4y ago
Added
2015-04-10
Requires WP
3.8.1
Tested up to
5.1.22
Requires PHP
5.6

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-05-15 4K+ → 3K+ down after 430 days in band
  2. 2025-03-11 5K+ → 4K+ down after 296 days in band
  3. 2024-05-19 6K+ → 5K+ down after 393 days in band
  4. 2023-04-22 7K+ → 6K+ down

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Security Headers: 3K+ active installs, 5.0★ (8 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-14. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/security-headers