Rename Plugins Folder

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How to rename the plugins folder? Install Rename Plugins Folder. Usually, for security reasons, people rename any kind of folder, but they don’t rename the plugins folder. Renaming the plugins folder makes the protection of your website stronger. Many times bad robots scan the net until they find websites that have vulnerable plugins. Most of the time they detect the plugins by checking wp-content/plugins in the page HTML. If instead of having wp-content/plugins you have for example wp-content/extensions, probably the bad robot will not detect any plugin. This plugin just renames the plugins folder and updates the wp-config.php file to make work your website with the new folder name. It doesn’t save anything in the database. It’s for the users who don’t know how to modify the wp-config.php file, if you know it, of course you don’t really need this plugin. We recommend making a backup before renaming the plugins folder, especially of the file wp-config.php, so you can easily go back in case you have issues, even without this plugin. Issues may occur if your theme or some of your plugins don’t follow the best practices to refer to the plugins folder. You will find the options in Plugins => Rename Plugins Folder