Title: Expire Passwords
Author: Frankie Jarrett
Published: <strong>Aprel 28, 2015</strong>
Last modified: Yanvar 5, 2017

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Expire Passwords

 By [Frankie Jarrett](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fjarrett/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/expire-passwords.0.6.0.zip)

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 * [Reviews](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/expire-passwords/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/expire-passwords/#developers)

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## Description

**Did you find this plugin helpful? Please consider [leaving a 5-star review](https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/expire-passwords).**

Harden the security of your site by preventing unauthorized access to stale user
accounts.

This plugin is also ideal for sites needing to meet certain industry security compliances–
such as government, banking or healthcare.

In the plugin settings you can set the maximum number of days users are allowed 
to use the same password (90 days by default), as well as which user roles will 
be required to reset their passwords regularly (non-Administrators by default).

**Languages supported:**

 * English
 * Czech
 * Español

**Development of this plugin is done [on GitHub](https://github.com/fjarrett/expire-passwords).
Pull requests welcome. Please see [issues reported](https://github.com/fjarrett/expire-passwords/issues)
there before going to the plugin forum.**

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Configure which user roles should be required to regularly reset their passwords
   and how often.
 * [[
 * Users with expired passwords are redirected to the password reset screen upon
   sign in.
 * [[
 * Users are not permitted to use the same password two times in a row during reset.

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a61a3fe46da238ccd95abfc954213ec2486724e33b3a31caa2c3f6adf6aa27fb?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Excellent Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-but-looks-abandoned/)󠁿

 [Eli](https://profiles.wordpress.org/realact/) Iyun 22, 2018 2 replies

This is very handy, I’m paranoiac when it comes to security, it’s sad that the plugin
seems to be abandoned 🙁 PS: The author has responded and stated the plugin is NOT
abandoned so I have changed the title of my review.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c1cd78ebbc9a36a027d7cc237750ccc446847db210325fd8eceed0adca63e7d4?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Excelent](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excelent-571/)󠁿

 [Zsolt Edelényi](https://profiles.wordpress.org/batyuvitez/) Mart 21, 2018

Professional, simple, reliable. I made translation to Hungarian. Can I upload or
send it to you?

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/96e6635614faa365a70c3cc79898bd010ebe0f255c18f37a5f907f4e059baa04?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Great feature, but a previous version of plugin locked out all our users](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-this-plugin-has-just-locked-out-all-users-in-password-reset-loop/)󠁿

 [vtq](https://profiles.wordpress.org/virtiqa/) Yanvar 8, 2017 4 replies

Edit: This plugin provides a great feature many WordPress admins will want. I would
suggest keeping one admin account with a permanent (very strong) password to avoid
being locked out in case something malfunctions – as it did to me in an earlier 
version. Old review: Seemed to be exactly what we needed, now when passwords expire
resetting to a new password does not change the password expire message, meaning
all our users are locked out. This meant we had to put in a request to our server
team to disable the plugin via folder rename, just to get any access.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/02e413152906f9dda514e5d864180b0f9e89404ac2c1af47cd29be716a492e19?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Solid and easy to use](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/solid-and-easy-to-use-2/)󠁿

 [Svensonsan](https://profiles.wordpress.org/svensonsan/) Sentabr 3, 2016 1 reply

This plugin should be mandatory or built-in into wordpress. Easy to setup, use and
it just works.

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## Contributors & Developers

“Expire Passwords” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Frankie Jarrett ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fjarrett/)

“Expire Passwords” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/expire-passwords/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Expire Passwords” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/expire-passwords)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/expire-passwords/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/expire-passwords/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/expire-passwords/)
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## Changelog

#### 0.6.0 – January 5, 2017

 * Fix: Expiration not updating when resetting a password via email confirmation
   link.

Props [@fjarrett](https://github.com/fjarrett)

#### 0.5.0 – December 23, 2016

 * Tweak: Indicate support for WordPress 4.7 and require at least 4.0.
 * Fix: Selected user roles in plugin settings not always being honored.
 * Fix: Destroy all sessions after login with an expired password.

Props [@fjarrett](https://github.com/fjarrett)

#### 0.4.0 – April 13, 2016

 * New: Indicate support for WordPress 4.5.
 * Tweak: Bring back PHP 5.2 compatibility.

Props [@fjarrett](https://github.com/fjarrett)

#### 0.3.0 – July 9, 2015

 * New: Language support for Czech
 * Tweak: Optimizations requiring PHP 5.3 or higher
 * Fix: User role array error before options exist

Props [@fjarrett](https://github.com/fjarrett), [@dero](https://github.com/dero)

#### 0.2.2 – July 2, 2015

 * New: Language support for Español

Props [@fjarrett](https://github.com/fjarrett)

#### 0.2.1 – July 2, 2015

 * Fix: Fatal undefined function error occuring in some cases ([#3](https://github.com/fjarrett/expire-passwords/issues/3))

Props [@fjarrett](https://github.com/fjarrett)

#### 0.2.0 – April 29, 2015

 * New: Disallow using the same password as before on reset ([#1](https://github.com/fjarrett/expire-passwords/issues/1))
 * Tweak: Use default if limit is set to greater than 365 days

Props [@fjarrett](https://github.com/fjarrett)

#### 0.1.0 – April 28, 2015

 * Initial release

Props [@fjarrett](https://github.com/fjarrett)

## Meta

 *  Version **0.6.0**
 *  Last updated **9 yil ago**
 *  Active installations **500+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.7.33**
 *  Languages
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/expire-passwords/) va [Italian](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/expire-passwords/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/expire-passwords)
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[login](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/login/)
   [membership](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/membership/)[passwords](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/passwords/)
   [profile](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/profile/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/expire-passwords/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.9 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Frankie Jarrett ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fjarrett/)

## Support

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