Best safety plugins for WordPress
The most popular safety plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Companion Auto Update leads with 40K+ active installs, ahead of Blue Captcha (400+) and Escape Button (60+). All 20 plugins tagged “safety” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 safety plugins
- 1.
Companion Auto UpdateThe most installed safety plugin, with 40K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 105 reviews, updated 7 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 2.Blue Captcha
400+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 15 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.
Escape Button60+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 4.
WP Firewall40+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.4.25.
- 5.
Safety Exit Button30+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 5 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 6.
Plugiva ClientGuard30+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 7.IP Dependent Cookies
10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
- 8.Secure Login
10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
- 9.
ROB (rat out blocker)10+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 5 months ago.
- 10.
Specflux Site AgentFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 3 weeks ago.
All 20 plugins tagged “safety”

Companion Auto Update
Down in the last 7 days:1#820by Papin Schipper7 months ago
Manage all updates on your WordPress site. Stay in the know with several optional e-mail notifications and logs. For free.
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 4.8(105)
- Downloads
- 200/day
Blue Captcha
Up in the last 7 days:11#9,326by jotis2 months ago
Blue Captcha is a powerful and highly customized WordPress plugin that effectively protects your WP blogs from spammers and unwanted persons.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.7(15)
- Downloads
- 10/day

Escape Button
Up in the last 7 days:25#19,699by ourwave2 years ago
We developed the Our Wave Escape Button (available in the bottom right of our website) to help protect our users in unsafe situations.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Firewall
Down in the last 7 days:235#21,438by Andrea De Giovine6 years ago
Protect WordPress from hacker attacks, spam and dangerous actions.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Safety Exit Button
Up in the last 7 days:416#24,460by Clicksmith Digital Marketing5 months ago
Adds a safety exit button that lets visitors leave a website quickly.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Plugiva ClientGuard
#24,789by Amit Biswas21 days ago
WordPress admin guardrails that simplify the dashboard and help prevent unintended changes with Client Mode.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
IP Dependent Cookies
#34,464by Denis V (Artprima)10 years ago
Plugin IP Dependent Cookies makes your Wordpress installation more secure adding your IP to salt (which makes cookies IP-dependent).
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 2/day
Secure Login
Up in the last 7 days:3,033#40,337by David Leonard12 years ago
Secure, 2 step Verification for WordPress login, via One Time Pin (OTP).
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

ROB (rat out blocker)
Down in the last 7 days:3,277#47,704by stasionok5 months ago
Restrict execution of certain external requests with partial url or even regex to prevent personal data leakage (as example)
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Specflux Site Agent
Up in the last 7 days:4,846#50,135by Specflux Solutions25 days ago
Resumable multi-step agent runs inside the logged-in WordPress session: Abilities as tools, a governed approval gate on every write.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Safer wp-admin login
Up in the last 7 days:5,949#55,036by Spitaman Safety7 years ago
Safer Login is a light plugin enables webmaster and administrators that allows to change wp-admin url to any custom url they want easily as well as sa …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

PressBrake
Down in the last 7 days:8,319#63,030by miriyamcore1 month ago
PressBrake prevents accidental WordPress mistakes before they happen.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Butterfly Button
#63,373by butterflybutton9 months ago
A digital safe zone that secretly provides domestic violence victims with information, assistance and expert contacts without leaving traces.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

RecallLens
Up in the last 7 days:4,581#66,001by lulzasaur91922 months ago
Product-recall search widget: visitors check any product against official U.S. CPSC recall data. Shortcode + Gutenberg block.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

DevnDespro SafeDelete
Down in the last 7 days:13,200#67,346by devndespro13 days ago
Check which posts and pages link to a WordPress page before moving it to Trash. Review references and confirm or cancel.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Tessera for the Abilities API
Up in the last 7 days:5,670#67,519by Ibrahim6 months ago
Snapshot, audit, and rollback layer for plugins that register abilities via the WordPress Abilities API.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

TheEPI
Down in the last 7 days:2,312#71,038by Evarisk7 years ago
TheEPI is the open source software for the daily management of your PPE. Ensure the traceability of the PPE, the monitoring of the maintenance operati …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Plug Error Handler
Down in the last 7 days:16,114#71,100by monzur2 months ago
Automatically detects and deactivates plugins that cause PHP fatal or parse errors during activation or update to prevent site crashes.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Circuit Breaker
#72,500by balaeno7 months ago
A safety utility that helps prevent fatal-error crash loops by allowing administrators to safely recover and manually deactivate problematic plugins.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Konfyra Omni Guard
Down in the last 7 days:3,954#73,517by gsrcoimbatore2 months ago
Prevents WordPress "White Screen of Death" crashes caused by missing plugin dependencies. Scans, guards, and alerts — silently.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day