Simple Honeypot for Contact Form 7 vs ReCaptcha v2 for Contact Form 7

Head-to-head on the signals that matter, from the public WordPress.org data.

Simple Honeypot for Contact Form 7

by Roland

Health D50

ReCaptcha v2 for Contact Form 7

by IQComputing

Health A91

Active-install trajectory

Simple Honeypot for Contact Form 7 ReCaptcha v2 for Contact Form 7

Active installs, each indexed to 100 at the start of the window. A line above 100 is growing its install base, below 100 is shrinking.

Metric	Simple Honeypot for Contact Form 7	ReCaptcha v2 for Contact Form 7
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	500–600	200K–300K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	+25% ✓	0%
Overall health	D · 50	A · 91 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	24/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	65/100	97/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	3.60★	4.84★ ✓
Reviews	0	89 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	65/100	97/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Elevated	Low ✓
Last updated	2.0y ago	3mo ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	108	24.1K ✓
Category	Security	Security

✓ marks the stronger plugin on each row. Rows where they're level show no marker.

Release activity

Simple Honeypot for Contact Form 7 ReCaptcha v2 for Contact Form 7

7-day average daily downloads. Downloads spike for about a week after each release as the install base re-downloads, so read this as release cadence, not growth.