Most Downloaded Free Wordpress Security Plugin
low is the most downloaded WordPress security plugins that we have choosen directly from the wordpress plugin directory. All of the resources in this post are categorized and hopefully you will find a number of new plugin that will be practical for your own work.
Secure Your Login
Login LockDown
Downloaded: 69,243 | Last Updated: 2009-9-17 | Compatible Up to WP 2.8.4 Limits the number of login attempts from a given IP range within a certain time period. User Locker
Downloaded: 24,116 | Last Updated: 2010-3-22 | Ready for WP 3.0+ This plugin locks user account after given number of incorrect login attempts. This makes brute force and dictionary attacks nearly impossible. Limit Login Attempts
Downloaded 34,395 | Last Updated: 2010-8-4 | Ready for WP 3.0+ Limit rate of login attempts, including by way of cookies, for each IP. Semisecure Login Reimagined
Downloaded 21,869 | Last Updated: 2010-6-28 | Ready for WP 3.0+ “Re-imagined” version of Semisecure Login that uses public and secret-key encryption to encrypt passwords when logging in. Protect Your WordPress Installation
WP Security Scan
Downloaded: 394,693 | Last Updated: 2009-11-16 | Compatible up to WP 2.8.4 Scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities. Secure WordPress
Downloaded: 219,327 | Last Updated: 2010-10-6 | Ready for WP 3.0 Secure your WordPress Installation with small functions. Exploit Scanner
Downloaded: 113,421 | Last Updated: 2010-7-29 | Ready for WP 3.0 Search the files and database of your WordPress install for signs that may indicate that it has fallen victim to malicious hackers. TAC (Theme Authenticity Checker)
Downloaded: 29,242 | Last Updated: 2009-12-18 | Compatible up to WP 2.9.2 Scan all of your theme files for potentially malicious or unwanted code. WordPress File Monitor
Downloaded: 12,377 | Last Updated: 2010-6-23 | Ready for WP 3.0 Monitor files under your WordPress installation for changes. When a change occurs, be notified via email. WP-MalWatch
Downloaded: 11,612 | Last Updated: 2010-9-1 | Ready for WP 3.0 WP-MalWatch is a WordPress security plugin that performs a nightly scan of your WordPress blog looking for evidence of malware Anti Spam
SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam
Downloaded: 479,670 | Last Updated: 2010-9-28 | Ready for WP 3.0 Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the comment form, registration form, login, or all. Also is fully WP, WPMU, and BuddyPress compatible. Simple CAPTCHA
Downloaded: 91,466 | Last Updated: 2009-3-27 | Compatible Up to WP 2.7.1 A CAPTCHA for your comment system to prevent unwanted spams. Prevent automated spams by bots and most important naughty peoples WP-Hashcash
Downloaded: 64,726 | Last Updated: 2010-3-31 | compatible up to 2.9.2 Client-side javascript blocks all spam bots. XHTML 1.1 compliant. Sabre
Downloaded: 42,491 | Last Updated: 2010-6-25 | Ready for WP 3.0 Sabre is an acronym for Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine. It’s a set of counter measures against spam registration on your blog. NoSpamNX
Downloaded: 41,934 | Last Updated: 2010-8-22 | Ready for WP 3.0 To protect your Blog from automated spambots, this plugin adds additional formfields (hidden to human-users) to your comment form. Invisible Defender
Downloaded: 22,454 | Last Updated: 2010-7-28 | Ready for WP 3.0 This plugin protects your registration, login and comment forms against spambots. yaCAPTCHA
Downloaded: 11,151 | Last Updated: 2010-7-11 | Ready for WP 3.0 yaCAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA plugin for WordPress that helps you block comment spam from automated bots. Password Protect
AskApache Password Protect
Downloaded: 50,742 | Last Updated: 2010-9-6 | Ready for WP 3.0 This plugin Adds Crazy Additional Password Protection and Security to your blog. Content Protector
Blog Protector – Protect Your Content
Downloaded: 49,298 | Last Updated: 2010-9-26 | Ready for WP 3.0 Protect your valuable blog content as well as images from getting copied. WP-CopyProtect [Protect your posts]
Downloaded: 31,250 | Last Updated: 2009-12-23 | Compatible up to 2.9.2 Protect your blog content from getting copied. A simple plug-in developed to stop the Copy cats Protect your Data Base
WP-DB-Backup
Downloaded: 600,517 | Last Updated: 2008-12-10 | Compatible Up to WP 2.9.2 WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database. WP-DBManager
Downloaded: 249,946 | Last Updated: 2010-10-5 | Ready for WP 3.0 Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database. Other Plugins
GD Press Tools
Downloaded: 88,105 | Last Updated: 2010-8-19 | Ready for WP 3.0 GD Press Tools is a collection of various administration, seo, maintenance, backup and security related tools that can help with everyday blog tasks Admin SSL
Downloaded: 24,154 | Last Updated: 2009-2-17 | Compatible Up to WP 2.7.1 Secures any WordPress URL using Private or Shared SSL. Once the plugin is activated go to the Admin SSL config page to enable SSL and read the install WP-Members
Downloaded: 20,969 | Last Updated: 2010-8-24 | Ready for WP 3.0 This is a plugin to restrict content to be viewable by registered members Configure SMTP
Downloaded: 20,791 | Last Updated: 2010-9-29 | Ready for WP 3.0 Configure SMTP mailing in WordPress, including support for sending e-mail via SSL/TLS (such as GMail). User Role Editor
Downloaded: 17,771 | Last Updated: 2010-9-21 | Ready for WP 3.0 User Role Editor WordPress plugin makes the role capabilities changing easy. You can change any standard WordPress user role (except administrator). WordPress Tweaks
Downloaded: 17,936 | Last Updated: 2008-6-30 | Compatible Up to WP 2.5.1A must-have plugin that adds many useful settings pertaining to comments, posts, SEO, security, the administration back-end, and more. Mini Mail Dashboard Widget
Downloaded: 10,372 | Last Updated: 2010-8-29 | Ready for WP 3.0 Send and receive e-mails on the administration panel and optionally receive SMS messages when new messages arrive. 
