Title: Plugin fork
Last modified: September 20, 2016

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# Plugin fork

 *  Plugin Author [Ryan Hellyer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanhellyer/)
 * (@ryanhellyer)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fork-2/)
 * This plugin made complete sense when it was first built, but I feel that the 
   new password strength features in WordPress mean that the plugin needs to be 
   re-engineered since a lot of this plugins functionality is already baked into
   core.
 * With that in mind, if I’ve forked it into something much simpler than the existing
   plugin. Since WordPress already includes the ability to limit password strength,
   I’ve simply hidden the checkbox which lets you bypass that check
 * Here is the forked version:
    [https://github.com/ryanhellyer/minimum-password-strength](https://github.com/ryanhellyer/minimum-password-strength)
 * Would you be interested in merging these changes back into this plugin? I’d rather
   work on this existing one than create my own fork if possible. I’m happy to act
   as an admin and fix stuff if it breaks too. Although I suspect that wouldn’t 
   be a problem since my new version is stupidly simple.

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 *  Plugin Author [Will Anderson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/itsananderson/)
 * (@itsananderson)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fork-2/#post-8203963)
 * This would be great!
 * I actually do have the original plugin on GitHub [https://github.com/CodeAwhile/minimum-password-strength](https://github.com/CodeAwhile/minimum-password-strength)
 * If you want to drive the release of this update, I’m happy to add you as a maintainer
   on the GitHub project, and on the .org plugin.
 *  Plugin Author [Ryan Hellyer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanhellyer/)
 * (@ryanhellyer)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fork-2/#post-8204057)
 * Awesome, thanks 🙂
 * I’ve dumped the new version into the Git repository now.
    [https://github.com/CodeAwhile/minimum-password-strength](https://github.com/CodeAwhile/minimum-password-strength)
 * I haven’t pushed it to dot org, as I’d like to test it on a live site first. 
   I have a client whose site I installed it on today, so I’ll just wait until they
   have used it for a few weeks before pushing it to dot org.

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 * [Minimum Password Strength](https://wordpress.org/plugins/minimum-password-strength/)
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 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Ryan Hellyer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanhellyer/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fork-2/#post-8204057)
 * Status: not a support question