Usually, for security reasons, people rename any kind of folder, but they don't rename the plugins folder.<\/p>\n\n
Renaming the plugins folder makes the protection of your website stronger.<\/p>\n\n
Bad robots scan the net to find websites that have vulnerable plugins.<\/p>\n\n
Most of the time they detect the plugins by checking the path wp-content\/plugins in the page HTML.<\/p>\n\n
If instead of wp-content\/plugins the path is for example wp-content\/extensions, probably the bad robot will not detect any plugin.<\/p>\n\n
This plugin just renames the plugins folder and updates the wp-config.php file to make work your website with the new folder name.<\/p>\n\n
It doesn't save anything in the database.<\/p>\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n
Issues may occur if your theme or one of your plugins doesn't follow the best practices to refer to the plugins folder.<\/p>\n\n
Normally, the authors of themes and plugins know that they must refer to the plugins folder by adopting best practices.<\/p>\n\n
If one of your plugins or the theme gives issues, we suggest restoring the original folder name but writing the author of the plugin that was giving the issue.<\/p>\n\n
You will find the options in Plugins => Rename Plugins Folder<\/p>\n\n