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Source Code Protection

by ViitorCloud Technologies Pvt Ltd · Security

Source Code Protection is a simple and effective plugin that uses to prevent common techniques in protecting your code from being stolen.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
50 Health · D
Maintenance 22/100
Rating quality 67/100
Support 70/100

50 health vs 74 average across 235 Security plugins

Removal-risk signals

28/100

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

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

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.

63 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 31/100
WP compatibility 77/100
Rating quality 50/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 784 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-49% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

58

now · peak 258

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

Source Code Protecti · #17589 Wordfence Security · #11 Hostinger Tools · #20 Really Simple Securi · #17

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 “80+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
80–90 ≈87

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,381 observations

Details

Version
3.0.0
Last updated
2.1y ago
Added
2019-02-06 · 7 yrs on WP
Requires WP
3.8
Tested up to
6.5.8
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-06-15 90+ → 80+ down after 98 days in band
  2. 2026-03-09 100+ → 90+ down after 398 days in band
  3. 2025-02-04 200+ → 100+ down after 37 days in band
  4. 2024-12-29 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in band
  5. 2024-12-28 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in band
  6. 2024-12-27 300+ → 200+ down after 11 days in band
  7. 2024-12-16 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in band
  8. 2024-12-15 300+ → 200+ down after 2 days in band

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Source Code Protection: 80+ active installs, 1.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-code-protection