wp-security-hardening

WP Hardening (discontinued)

The WP Hardening is a one-click tool to fix standard security recommendations on your WordPress website.

discontinued

48.6 opportunity score Open evidence Open API Open on WordPress.org

10.0Kactive installs

132.4Kdownloads

4.0rating

0unresolved threads

29complaints analyzed

8praise analyzed

Proof Health

Open evidence

Commercial opportunities need traceable source links before they are treated as build-worthy.

93 / 93 rows with source links

100.0% of this page's analysis has direct source links.

0 build-decision rows missing links

0 rows here require auditable proof before promotion.

0 rows with no attached evidence

0 rows have source counts but still need direct links.

Download Momentum

180 days

509recent 30 days 493previous 30 days 3.2%movement 3.0Kshown total

Related Opportunities

0 markets

No opportunity report currently maps to this plugin's tags.

Source Evidence

Open evidence explorer

mixed review · high severity · relevance 1.0

Reccomending php 7.4 ?

Reccomending php 7.4 ?: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

Reccomending php 7.4 ?

complaint support · high severity · relevance 1.0

Does this Plugin work with NGINX?

Does this Plugin work with NGINX?: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

When trying to install this plugin, I’ve encountered the following error: Warning: require_once(/www/wp-content/plugins/../../wp-load.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /www/wp-content/plugins/wp-security-hardening/modules/hooks.php on line 3 Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required ‘/www/wp-content/plugins/../../wp-load.ph

complaint support · high severity · relevance 1.0

Cannot modify header information

Cannot modify header information: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

Cannot modify header information Hi, My logs is keeping showing each 15 seconds: [11-Mar-2022 19:28:20 UTC] PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent in /bitnami/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-security-hardening/wp-hardening.php on line 91 [11-Mar-2022 19:28:20 UTC] PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already s

complaint support · high severity · relevance 1.0

wp-security-hardening giving 504 gate way exception in production

wp-security-hardening giving 504 gate way exception in production: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

wp-security-hardening giving 504 gate way exception in production Able to install this plugin in lower environments and worked fine.

complaint review · high severity · relevance 1.0

Doesn’t fully work – Support does not exist

Doesn’t fully work – Support does not exist: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

Doesn’t fully work – Support does not exist Doesnt work as intented.

mixed review · high severity · relevance 0.98

Good idea but needs improving

Good idea but needs improving: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

Good idea but needs improving This plugin adds loads of dodgy looking code to your WordPress install, I just saw it and thought I had been hacked.

complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.98

PHP Warnings after upgrading to PHP 8.2

PHP Warnings after upgrading to PHP 8.2: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

PHP Warnings after upgrading to PHP 8.2 I just upgraded our servers from PHP 7.4 to PHP 8.2 and our frontend and admin screens are working okay, no noisy warnings, but when I use the wp-cli provided by my host (Cloudways) I’m getting lots of warnings.

complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.97

Change Login URL doesnt hide wp-admin

Change Login URL doesnt hide wp-admin: users show security, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

Change Login URL doesnt hide wp-admin Hi, I’m just comparing your plugin to other options and compared your Change Login URL facitlity to the WPS Hide Login pluigin.

complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.96

Putting css and js to frontend pages

Putting css and js to frontend pages: users show security, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

Page then needs to load more requests, the pagespeedscore is lowered and I think it has no point of having it loaded.

complaint review · high severity · relevance 0.91

Dead plugin

Dead plugin: users show security, bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

Dead plugin No support answers in forever, not even sure the devs come to the support forum anymore.

Competitor Context

2 shown

Discontinued Product Stock Status for WooCommerce praise owner · intel 61.3 · weakness 44.5

praise owner

22 collected complaint signal(s) bugs missing feature 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions

source 1 source 2

Discontinued Products praise owner · intel 60.6 · weakness 43.9

praise owner

15 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor ecommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions

source 1 source 2

Repeated Themes

0 shown

No repeated plugin-level themes have been generated yet.

Collected Signals

20 shown from 50 collected

complaint Moving on (1 star) review · 2026-02-15T02:54:25+00:00 · high severity · discontinued

A lifetime customer says the security plugin appears abandoned after the company dropped WordPress security services and stopped updating it.

Evidence: they’ve completely dropped this arm of their business and that’s apparent by their security plugin not being updated in awhile.

security support security plugin maintenance Evidence only

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

source plugin

complaint Any recommendations on a replacement now that this is discontinued? support · 2024-10-30T18:07:46+00:00 · medium severity · discontinued

Any recommendations on a replacement now that this is discontinued?: users show missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I’ve had this plugin installed for a few years and have really appreciated some of it’s features, but now I see that this plugin has been discontinued.

missing feature setup Evidence only

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

source plugin

complaint It’s sending e-mails without my permission!!! (1 star) review · 2024-07-15T16:08:49+00:00 · medium severity · discontinued

It’s sending e-mails without my permission!!!: complaint conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: It’s sending e-mails without my permission!!! It is sending me stupid e-mails from my own e-mail account without my permission! It is sending me stupid e-mails from my own e-mail account without my permission!

Evidence only

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

source plugin

complaint PHP Warnings when using WP-CLI support · 2024-05-10T14:40:56+00:00 · medium severity · discontinued

PHP Warnings when using WP-CLI: users show compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: PHP Warnings when using WP-CLI Hi, This plugin causes lots of PHP warnings when using the WP-CLI: PHP Warning: Constant DB_NAME already defined in [...]/public/wp-config.php on line 25 Warning: Constant DB_NAME already defined in [...]/public/wp-config.php on line 25 PHP Warning: Constant DB_USER already defined in [...]/public/wp-config.php on line 28 Warni

compatibility support quality Evidence only

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

source plugin

complaint Dead plugin (1 star) review · 2024-02-26T13:15:23+00:00 · high severity · discontinued

Dead plugin: users show security, bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Dead plugin No support answers in forever, not even sure the devs come to the support forum anymore.

security bugs support Evidence only

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

source plugin

complaint PHP Warnings after upgrading to PHP 8.2 support · 2023-11-09T00:39:42+00:00 · high severity · discontinued

PHP Warnings after upgrading to PHP 8.2: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: PHP Warnings after upgrading to PHP 8.2 I just upgraded our servers from PHP 7.4 to PHP 8.2 and our frontend and admin screens are working okay, no noisy warnings, but when I use the wp-cli provided by my host (Cloudways) I’m getting lots of warnings.

security bugs compatibility missing feature Evidence only

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

source plugin

complaint WP Hardening reports /dev/null 666 permissions as wrong support · 2023-08-06T09:52:57+00:00 · high severity · discontinued

WP Hardening reports /dev/null 666 permissions as wrong: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: If anyone followed this recommendation and changed the permissions to /dev/null, it could result in crashes not only of numerous applications, but also of the entire system!

bugs Evidence only

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

source plugin

complaint conflict with wordpress 6.2 support · 2023-04-06T15:27:17+00:00 · medium severity · discontinued

conflict with wordpress 6.2: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: conflict with wordpress 6.2 Hello, there is some conflict with the WordPress 6.2.

bugs compatibility missing feature support Evidence only

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

source plugin

praise WP Hardening does not accept WP 6.2 (5 stars) review · 2023-04-03T10:50:54+00:00 · medium severity · discontinued

WP Hardening does not accept WP 6.2: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: WP Hardening does not accept WP 6.2 If you did the update for WP 6.2., the creating new post post command will not work. Desactive the extension “wp hardening” and it will be possible again. Regards This topic was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by Agfuente . If you did the update for WP 6.2., the creating new post post command will not work. Desactive the ext

Evidence only

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

source plugin

complaint notice File Permission Checker on astra websecurity support · 2023-01-31T20:53:10+00:00 · high severity · discontinued

notice File Permission Checker on astra websecurity: users show security, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: notice File Permission Checker on astra websecurity hello, me use astra web security firewall and when i install astra wp hardening.

security compatibility setup Evidence only

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

source plugin

neutral Why is plugin loading files and font awesome on all pages??? support · 2023-01-17T13:27:55+00:00 · medium severity · discontinued

Why is plugin loading files and font awesome on all pages???: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Why is plugin loading files and font awesome on all pages??? Hello, Why is plugin loading files and font awesome on all pages??? Please condition loading your assets only in your exact admin pages, I am forced to disable the plugin now because of this … Thank you Hello, Why is plugin loading files and font awesome on all pages??? Please condition loading you

Evidence only

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

source plugin

neutral Disabling Rest API is unabling users to change password support · 2022-12-20T10:54:46+00:00 · medium severity · discontinued

Disabling Rest API is unabling users to change password: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: When they submit change of password, they get the email with reset link, but after opening the link they get this message: {“code”:”rest_not_logged_in”,”message”:”You are not currently logged in.”,”data”:{“status”:401}} What makes sense, because I suppose from what I have found that it is disabling Rest API only for logged out users, but this could be except

email Evidence only

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

source plugin

complaint conflict with Wordfence support · 2022-12-03T07:53:22+00:00 · medium severity · discontinued

conflict with Wordfence: users show compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: conflict with Wordfence i just installed this plugin and cannot connect Wordfence to Wordfence Central anymore: “Unable to communicate with Wordfence plugin.

compatibility setup Evidence only

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

source plugin

complaint CSS file size too large support · 2022-12-01T10:46:41+00:00 · medium severity · discontinued

CSS file size too large: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Thanks to the devs, WP Hardening works like a charm on my website 😉 However, when I do a site audit on Ahrefs, I get a warning for the CSS file size being too large.

support reliable quality Evidence only

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

source plugin

complaint WP 6.1 compability support · 2022-11-16T01:34:36+00:00 · medium severity · discontinued

WP 6.1 compability: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: WP 6.1 compability Hi WP Hardening team, I found a bug that cause error on edit page/post with WP ver 6.1 and WP Hardening ver 1.2.6 other page work fine, just the edit/add new page/post TypeError: (0 , E.__experimentaluseLayoutClasses) is not a function at Xt (http://toryburch.local.com/wp-includes/js/dist/edit-post.min.js:7:40200) at ct (http://toryburch.l

bugs reliable Evidence only

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

source plugin

complaint wp hardening 1 setting is creating problem with web story plugin support · 2022-11-03T10:11:57+00:00 · medium severity · discontinued

wp hardening 1 setting is creating problem with web story plugin: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: wp hardening 1 setting is creating problem with web story plugin hi , my problelm is when i enable “Remove Version from Script” this setting in wp hardening plugin than web story dashboard Plugin is not Open, dashboard is only Loading, and when I disable this setting than webs story plugin dashboard is load smoothly.

missing feature support dashboard Evidence only

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

source plugin

complaint Wappalyzer still showing WP Version support · 2022-10-20T08:07:09+00:00 · medium severity · discontinued

Wappalyzer still showing WP Version: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Wappalyzer still showing WP Version Hello, after activating all the options in the WP Hardening plugin, Wappalyzer is still getting all the information related WP version and other details.

missing feature form Evidence only

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

source plugin

complaint Feature request support · 2022-08-16T15:18:29+00:00 · high severity · discontinued

Feature request: users show security, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Feature request I think it would be a great additional security feature if you could include an option to use either an author’s name or nickname or other configurable name in the author’s slug, anything other than the username that can be used for admin login.

security missing feature quality Evidence only

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

source plugin

complaint Change Login URL support · 2022-08-05T17:09:56+00:00 · medium severity · discontinued

Change Login URL: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Change Login URL Shouldn’t this option actually hide the login url?

missing feature reliable login Evidence only

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

source plugin

complaint Incompatible with Forminator support · 2022-07-27T15:03:48+00:00 · high severity · discontinued

Incompatible with Forminator: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Incompatible with Forminator Hi, When enabled WP Hardening I’m experiencing a broken backend page of forminator plugin.

bugs compatibility support form Evidence only

Evidence only

This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

source plugin