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plott/wp-password-bcrypt
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WordPress plugin which replaces wp\_hash\_password and wp\_check\_password's phpass hasher with PHP 5.5's password\_hash and password\_verify using bcrypt.

1.0.3(2y ago)1428↓30%MITPHPPHP >=5.6.0

Since Jun 9Pushed 2y ago1 watchersCompare

[ Source](https://github.com/plottcreative/wp-password-bcrypt)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/plott/wp-password-bcrypt)[ RSS](/packages/plott-wp-password-bcrypt/feed)WikiDiscussions main Synced today

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wp-pwd-bycrypt
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[](#wp-pwd-bycrypt)

###  Health Score

23

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LowBetter than 26% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity17

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity39

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

4

Last Release

754d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/47776906?v=4)[Ashley Armstrong](/maintainers/ashley-plott)[@ashley-plott](https://github.com/ashley-plott)

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/139983915?v=4)[Ewan Lockwood](/maintainers/ewan-plott)[@ewan-plott](https://github.com/ewan-plott)

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Top Contributors

[![ashley-plott](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/47776906?v=4)](https://github.com/ashley-plott "ashley-plott (6 commits)")

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Tags

wordpresspasswordsbcrypt

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Code StylePHP\_CodeSniffer

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