Title: Minimum Password Strength
Author: Will Anderson
Published: <strong>February 8, 2013</strong>
Last modified: March 10, 2016

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# minimum-password-strength

 By [Will Anderson](https://profiles.wordpress.org/itsananderson/)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/minimum-password-strength/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/minimum-password-strength/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/minimum-password-strength/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/minimum-password-strength/)

## Description

This plugin has been closed as of February 20, 2025 and is not available for download.
Reason: Security Issue.

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d0c448b7a3aa624e819a1cda90a456202033b2ba40a41fa73075d94e0fd278f9?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Good Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-plugin-1947/)󠁿

 [mjmccarr1](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mjmccarr1/) February 12, 2017

Seems to work.. but when you do password reset after settings are at medium it lets
you reset to weak. when you try very weak, it kicks in and says you need at least
a medium. But for some reason when you do weak it lets it reset to weak even when
set at medium

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2e61be9b937040cc50986ba09e76c1ac1b074fb7f443038040cbfd02bef6c04f?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Doesn’t Work](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-work-1517/)󠁿

 [cheabu](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cheabu/) February 11, 2017 1 reply

I installed there is no settings option anywhere, nothing has changed

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1833ca1c9fd5f4e52264f08186fbdc514337eeb3370f8373318c8440128ac77c?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[doesn't work](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-work-1355/)󠁿

 [mkruchkov](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mkruchkov/) September 3, 2016

no effect on password requirenents

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4db76ba0d9ec680bcb059cd57c9d43eb7d6828e54f3d365001c36aef27ced0f0?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Worked great on Woocommerce too!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/worked-great-on-woocommerce-too/)󠁿

 [keeneyemedia](https://profiles.wordpress.org/keeneyemedia/) September 3, 2016

This worked great, and worked perfectly with Woocommerce customers creating an account
when checking out.

 [ Read all 8 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/minimum-password-strength/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Minimum Password Strength” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Will Anderson ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/itsananderson/)
 *   [ Tony Ferrell ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zer0divisor/)

[Translate “Minimum Password Strength” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/minimum-password-strength)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/minimum-password-strength/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/minimum-password-strength/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/minimum-password-strength/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/minimum-password-strength/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2.0**
 *  Last updated **10 years ago**
 *  Active installations **N/A**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.4.34**
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/minimum-password-strength/advanced/)