10 Best Frontend Reset Password Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Frontend Reset Password has 10,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Frontend Reset Password
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Google Authenticator
Closest match4.3 (135) 20,000+ active installsGoogle Authenticator for your WordPress blog.
Shares the login, password tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated 14 days ago.
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4.4 (54) 4,000+ active installsSecurity against brute force attacks by tracking IP, name, password; requiring very strong passwords. Idle timeout. Maintenance mode lockdown.
Shares the login, password tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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4.8 (21) 2,000+ active installsCreate central "Enter your password" page and the password entered determine which page the user sees next.
Shares the login, password tags on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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AJAX Login and Registration modal popup + inline form
4.7 (120) 3,000+ active installsEasy to integrate modal with Login and Registration features.
Shares the login, lost password tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated November 12, 2025.
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Passster – Password Protect Pages and Content
4.2 (60) 10,000+ active installsPassword Protect Pages, Posts & Content in WordPress
Shares the password tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 4 days ago.
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PPWP – Password Protect Pages
4.7 (270) 30,000+ active installsPassword protect WordPress pages and posts by user roles or with multiple passwords; protect your entire website with a single password.
Shares the password tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, last updated 4 days ago.
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4.0 (33) 700+ active installsSimpleModal Login provides a modal Ajax login, registration, and password reset feature for WordPress which utilizes jQuery and the SimpleModal jQuery
Shares the login, password tags on WordPress.org. 700+ installs against 10,000+, no update since November 28, 2017.
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Login Lockdown & Protection
4.3 (61) 100,000+ active installsProtect, lockdown & secure login form by limiting login attempts from the same IP & banning IPs.
Shares the login tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 22 days ago.
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WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) – Security & Firewall
4.5 (372) 100,000+ active installsHide and Secure WP paths with the 8G Firewall, Brute Force protection and Passkeys. AI security explanations available with a subscription.
Shares the login tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 4 days ago.
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4.9 (83) 100,000+ active installsWPS Limit login limit connection attempts by IP address
Shares the login tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 24 days ago.
Switching from Frontend Reset Password: common questions
What is the best alternative to Frontend Reset Password?
Google Authenticator is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 20,000+ active installs with a 4.3 out of 5 rating.
Which Frontend Reset Password alternative has the most users?
Login Lockdown, with 100,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Frontend Reset Password alternative is rated highest?
WPS Limit Login, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 83 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Frontend Reset Password alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Frontend Reset Password score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Frontend Reset Password on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Google Authenticator is the closest match to Frontend Reset Password by the data we track, and Login Lockdown has the widest reach with 100,000+ active installs. WP Ghost shipped the most recent release, on September 3, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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