Best hash plugins for WordPress
The most popular hash plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Password bcrypt leads with 1K+ active installs, ahead of Twitter Hash Tag Widget (10+) and WpCrypt (10+). All 13 plugins tagged “hash” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 hash plugins
- 1.
Password bcryptThe most installed hash plugin, with 1K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
- 2.
Twitter Hash Tag Widget10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.9.2.
- 3.
WpCrypt10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
- 4.
Ballast Security Hashing10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
- 5.
Tag With Hash10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.01.
- 6.
STAMPD.IO10+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 days ago.
- 7.
Append to menu links10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.0.18.
- 8.
WP Argon2 Password Hashing10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 9.
Hash PermalinkFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
- 10.
MB Challenge response authenticationFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.9.0.
All 13 plugins tagged “hash”
Password bcrypt
Down in the last 7 days:17#5,236by Viktor Szépe10 years ago
Replaces wp_hash_password and wp_check_password with PHP 5.5's password_hash and password_verify.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Twitter Hash Tag Widget
Up in the last 7 days:388#29,725by Matt Martz16 years ago
A widget for displaying the most recent twitter status updates for a particular hash tag.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WpCrypt
Down in the last 7 days:168#34,641by bruno.sousa11 years ago
Allow users to change password encryption method to SHA1, SHA2, AES Rijndael and more...
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 1/day
Ballast Security Hashing
#36,111by BallastSecurity14 years ago
This plugin drastically increases the security of the hash used to store passwords
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Tag With Hash
#40,106by kamiel7912 years ago
Automatically turn terms into tags if you precede them with a #. Nonexisting tags are created.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
STAMPD.IO
Up in the last 7 days:5,773#40,974by stampdio2 days ago
Stamp the SHA-256 hash of your posts on the blockchain: a public, timestamped proof that your content existed and has not changed.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Append to menu links
#45,972by waldirb4 years ago
Append a string such as a hash to the end of menu links. Useful for creating menus that link to a section of a page without having to create a custom …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Argon2 Password Hashing
Down in the last 7 days:4,475#46,121by mfsoftworks8 years ago
Existing user accounts will have their password hash updated with Argon2i on the next successful sign in.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hash Permalink
Up in the last 7 days:6,085#50,424by cavien2 months ago
Automatically generate random hash-based short permalinks for new posts.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
MB Challenge response authentication
Down in the last 7 days:1,574#54,203by Yeora4 years ago
This plugin implements challenge response authentication. In addition, the WordPress hasher is replaced by native PHP libraries.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
OrioleOne Master Tools
#67,461by OrioleOne1 month ago
WordPress utility suite for Morse, subnet, DNS, text cleaning, hash, text compare, password generation, public IP, and IP lookup tools.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day