Wordfence Security WordPress Plugin
The Wordfence WordPress security plugin provides free enterprise-class WordPress security, protecting your website from hacks and malware.
THE MOST DOWNLOADED WORDPRESS SECURITY PLUGIN
Wordfence starts by checking if your site is already infected. We do a deep server-side scan of your source code comparing it to the Official WordPress repository for core, themes and plugins. Then Wordfence secures your site and makes it up to 50 times faster.
Wordfence Security is 100% free and open source. We also offer a Premium API key that gives you Premium Support, Country Blocking, Scheduled Scans, Password Auditing and we even check if your website IP address is being used to Spamvertize. Click here to sign-up for Wordfence Premium now or simply install Wordfence free and start protecting your website.
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Usage of Wordfence Security over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 76 to 212 — up 136 (+178.9%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 212 | +6 |
| June 2024 | 206 | +14 |
| May 2024 | 192 | +4 |
| April 2024 | 188 | +11 |
| March 2024 | 177 | +5 |
| February 2024 | 172 | +14 |
| January 2024 | 158 | +19 |
| December 2023 | 139 | +18 |
| November 2023 | 121 | +4 |
| October 2023 | 117 | +7 |
| September 2023 | 110 | +25 |
| August 2023 | 85 | +6 |
| July 2023 | 79 | +3 |
| June 2023 | 76 | — |
Themes used with Wordfence Security
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Flatsome |
| 2 | Woodmart |
| 3 | Flatsome-child |
| 4 | Woodmart-child |
| 5 | Wordfence2020 |
| 6 | Highlight |
| 7 | Yuppiegadgets-flatsome-child |
| 8 | Voice |
| 9 | Blindsdirect |
| 10 | Hrinstruments-v3 |
| 11 | Kirby-com-theme |
| 12 | London |
| 13 | Luck |
| 14 | Sbc-vote-theme |
| 15 | Bigbangwp |
| 16 | Twentyseventeen |
| 17 | Homelux2017 |
| 18 | Hippodk |
| 19 | I5invest |
| 20 | Bridge |
Sites running Wordfence Security
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