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Best Whitelist Plugins for WordPress

15 plugins are tagged “whitelist” on WordPress.org. We rank them by active installs and score every one on update freshness, compatibility, ratings and support — so you can pick a safe one in seconds. The most popular right now is CM E-Mail Blacklist with 800+ active installs.

Plugins in category15
#1 by installsCM E-Mail Blacklist
Top-15 installs1.5K+
Avg. health (this page)36/100

15 Whitelist plugins

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Best Whitelist Plugins for WordPress
Rank Plugin Active installs Rating Updated Health
1 CM E-Mail Blacklist – Simple email filtering for safer registration CM E-Mail Blacklist Block unwanted email registrations on your site with this email blacklist plugin. Protect… by CreativeMindsSolutions 800+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 (8) 5 months ago 65
2 User Domain Whitelist User Domain Whitelist The User Domain Whitelist/Blacklist plugin limits user registration to only registrants… by Warren Harrison 300+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.1 (9) 9 years ago 42
3 Gatekeeper Gatekeeper Gatekeeper allows administrators to take a WordPress site offline while leaving it… by jamiewilson 200+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.7 (3) 9 years ago 29
4 DMN (Security Centre) DMN (Security Centre) The DMN (Security Centre) plugin keeps your word fences whitelist IP addresses updated with… by DMN Creative 70+ ★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews 2 years ago 25
5 IP Whitelist IP Whitelist Allows administrators to limit access to the WordPress dashboard by Awesoft 60+ ★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews 2 years ago 28
6 BlackSwan | Block External Request BlackSwan | Block External Request Block unwanted external HTTP requests in WordPress. Blacklist/whitelist management… by BlackSwanDev 40+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (1) 6 months ago 52
7 Blacklist & Whitelist Domains for Registration Blacklist & Whitelist Domains for Registration The whitelist/blacklist plugin gives you a strong layer of security for your website… by codicone 30+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 3 (2) 5 years ago 25
8 WP-Login and WP-Admin Whitelist WP-Login and WP-Admin Whitelist A Plugin That only allows whitelisted IP's, or optionally whitelisted browsers, to access… by SwiftNinjaPro 10+ ★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews 6 years ago 23
9 Token Access Token Access Limit access to the site to those with a cookie token. Visitors without the cookie see a… by Anthony 10+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (2) 1 year ago 33
10 exlink-safe-filter – External Link Security exlink-safe-filter – External Link Security 高级外部链接安全过滤插件,提供白名单、灰名单、黑名单分类管理及多种安全防护选项。 by C1G <10 ★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews 1 year ago 30
11 Coming Soon Whitelist Coming Soon Whitelist Allow specific pages to remain accessible while WooCommerce's "Coming Soon" mode is active… by villdev <10 ★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews 1 year ago 30
12 ZDN Whitelist Outgoing Email ZDN Whitelist Outgoing Email Restrict outgoing emails to a whitelist and log every message. Non-whitelisted recipients… by cuongquach <10 ★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews 3 months ago 55
13 LeBase64URL LeBase64URL Convert post external links into signed redirect URLs (?goto=), with whitelist, nofollow… by 老蒋和他的小伙伴 <10 ★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews 11 hours ago 64
14 Allowed Routes Allowed Routes Define only allowed routes for your website. Permalinks will be overruled. Wildcard Support. by nerdismftw.com <10 ★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews 7 years ago 21
15 Dead-Letter Dead-Letter Dead-Letter.Email for Wordpress. Dead simple disposable email check that just works. by SoftCreatR <10 ★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews 7 years ago 21

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How we rank

Popularity first, then a health check you can trust

Plugins are ordered the way WordPress.org ranks them for this category. Next to each one you’ll see its health score, so a popular-but-neglected option never sneaks into your stack.

  • 25 Update freshness
  • 20 Works with the latest WordPress
  • 25 Rating, weighted by review count
  • 15 Support threads resolved
  • 15 Active installs

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Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.

Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 6, 2026

What is the most popular whitelist plugin for WordPress?

CM E-Mail Blacklist – Simple email filtering for safer registration is the most popular whitelist plugin with 800+ active installs and a 4.5/5 rating on WordPress.org.

How many whitelist plugins are on WordPress.org?

There are currently 15 plugins tagged “whitelist” in the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

Are these whitelist plugins actively maintained?

1 of the top 15 whitelist plugins were updated in the last 30 days. Check each plugin’s health score for update freshness, WordPress compatibility and support responsiveness.

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