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Minimum Password Strength

Description

WordPress profile pages contain a visual indicator which shows the strength of a user’s chosen password. This is nice, but WordPress doesn’t actually enforce this in any way, so users are free to select weak passwords.

Minimum Password Strength uses the same method to calculate a password’s strength, but forces users to meet a minimum strength requirement before they can change their password.

By default, passwords must have “Medium” strength, but administrators can change this to force passwords to be at least “Weak”, “Medium”, or “Strong”. To change the minimum strength, go to Settings -> Password Strength after installing Minimum Password Strength.

For now, all users have the same password strength requirements, but a later release will allow administrators to select different strength requirements for different roles.

Installation

  1. Upload the ‘minimum-password-strength’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Configure your required password strength in Settings -> Password Strength

Reviews

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
February 11, 2017 1 reply
I installed there is no settings option anywhere, nothing has changed
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Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

Changelog

1.2.0

  • Enforce password strength during password reset
  • Update “Tested up to” tag

1.1.2

  • Fixing the installation instructions
  • Updating the short and long descriptions
  • Updating the “Tested up to” tag

1.1.1

  • Fixing a broken author name

1.1

  • Adding a readme.txt file

1.0

  • Initial release