BotShield CAPTCHA for Contact Form 7
by R.Sabbir · Forms
BotShield CAPTCHA for Contact Form 7 – Advanced Spam Protection with Turnstile, reCAPTCHA, Arithmetic, and Alphanumeric.
83 health vs 71 average across 509 Forms plugins
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Excellent listing optimization
Biggest win: Rating quality
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2025-11-22 · 237 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
51
now · peak 145
Directory rank vs rivals
wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “40+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
At the current install trend, crossing 50+ in roughly 46 days.
Install history · since 2025-11-24 · 235 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-06-05 30+ → 40+ up after 9 days in band
- 2026-05-27 40+ → 30+ down after 5 days in band
- 2026-05-22 30+ → 40+ up after 44 days in band
- 2026-04-08 20+ → 30+ up after 23 days in band
- 2026-03-16 10+ → 20+ up after 68 days in band
- 2026-01-07 — → 10+ up
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Contact Form 7 Captcha 100K+ installs · 4.1★ · 4 shared tags B -
Contact Form 7 Text CAPTCHA 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 4 shared tags C -
SilentShield – Captcha & Anti-Spam for WordPress (CF7, WPForms, Elementor, WooCommerce) 10K+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags A - R reCaptcha Add-On for FormCraft 7K+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags D
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Anti-spam, Spam protection, ReCaptcha for all forms and GDPR-compliant 4K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags B -
Easy Spam Filter – Privacy-Friendly CAPTCHA Alternative with Turnstile for Contact Form 7, WPForms, BuddyPress, Elementor 1K+ installs · 3.9★ · 3 shared tags B
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/botshield-captcha" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="BotShield CAPTCHA for Contact Form 7 — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> BotShield CAPTCHA for Contact Form 7: 40+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/botshield-captcha