Chinese Comment Spam Protection
by joe031102 · Security
Asks the visitor making the comment to key in the disappeared chinese word. This is intended to prove that the visitor is a human being but a spam rob …
41 health vs 63 average across 946 Security plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Long abandoned. No update in 15+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.0.5, well behind 6.8.
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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 5747 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-07 · 1,379 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
48
now · peak 156
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 “10+”. The real number sits in this band.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2022-10-06 · 1,381 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
No tier crossings observed yet.
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Gravity Forms Zero Spam 100K+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags A -
WPBruiser {no- Captcha anti-Spam} 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 3 shared tags D - R Really Simple CAPTCHA for cformsII 300+ installs · 3.8★ · 3 shared tags D
- P Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam 200+ installs · 3.9★ · 3 shared tags C
- B BuddyPress reCAPTCHA 200+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags D
- B BuddyPress Captcha 100+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags D
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