In June of last year, the WordPress security plugin Solid Security had 1+ million active installations according to data on the WordPress website. Currently, the install count is down to 800,000+ installs. That is a pretty dramatic drop in the install count of the plugin in 15 months. If the bolded claim at the top of the plugin’s description on the WordPress Plugin Directory, “Reduce your WordPress website’s risk to nearly zero with Solid Security”, was true, that drop would be hard to believe. That claim isn’t true.
With the install count dropping so dramatically, you might reasonably expect that there to be plenty of negative reviews of the plugin as well. That isn’t the case. Here are 30 most recent reviews: [Read more]