Disable Comments by click5
by click5 · Security
Best WordPress plugin to disable comments on your website and protect yourself from spammers.
72 health vs 63 average across 681 Security 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.
Well optimized
Biggest win: Rating quality
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
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Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
61
now · peak 1.4K
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 “200+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
At the current install trend, crossing 300+ in roughly 118 days.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-04-15 100+ → 200+ up after 502 days in tier
- 2024-11-29 300+ → 100+ down after 397 days in tier
- 2023-10-29 200+ → 300+ up after 242 days in tier
- 2023-03-01 100+ → 200+ up after 5 days in tier
- 2023-02-24 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-02-23 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2023-02-22 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-02-21 100+ → 200+ up after 3 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Disable Comments 100K+ installs · 3.8★ · 3 shared tags B -
Simply Disable Comments 6K+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags A -
Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 6M+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A - C Cookies for Comments 20K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D
- T Throws SPAM Away 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags B
- D Delete Pending Comments 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags C
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