10 Best Password bcrypt Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Password bcrypt has 1,000+ 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 Password bcrypt
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SimpleModal Login
Closest match4.0 (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 password tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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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 password tag on WordPress.org. About 4 times 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 password tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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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. About 10 times the installs, last updated 4 days ago.
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4.4 (38) 10,000+ active installsLet your users reset their forgotten passwords from the frontend of your website.
Shares the password tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated January 30, 2026.
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4.3 (135) 20,000+ active installsGoogle Authenticator for your WordPress blog.
Shares the password tag on WordPress.org. About 20 times the installs, last updated 14 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 30 times the installs, last updated 4 days ago.
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Restrict – membership, site, content and user access restrictions for WordPress
4.2 (25) 2,000+ active installsRestrict content easily to logged in users, members with a specific role or user capability, to it's author, Tickera, Venuera, Easy Digital Downl …
About 2 times the installs, last updated 12 days ago.
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Kadence Security
Paid version availableKadence Security – Password, Two Factor Authentication, and Brute Force Protection
4.6 (3,990) 700,000+ active installsHarden your site security with Login Security, Two-Factor Authentication (2FA), Vulnerability Scanner, Firewall, and more. Formerly iThemes Security.
About 700 times the installs, last updated July 27, 2026.
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Password Protected
Paid version availablePassword Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content
4.4 (139) 300,000+ active installsProtect your WordPress site, pages, posts, WooCommerce products, and categories with single or multiple passwords.
About 300 times the installs, last updated July 30, 2026.
Switching from Password bcrypt: common questions
What is the best alternative to Password bcrypt?
SimpleModal Login is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 700+ active installs with a 4.0 out of 5 rating.
Which Password bcrypt alternative has the most users?
Kadence Security, with 700,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Password bcrypt alternative is rated highest?
Password Protect Pages, rated 4.7 out of 5 by 270 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Password bcrypt 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 Password bcrypt 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 Password bcrypt 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
SimpleModal Login is the closest match to Password bcrypt by the data we track, and Kadence Security has the widest reach with 700,000+ active installs. Passster 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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