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Friendly Captcha for WordPress

by Friendly Captcha · Security

Friendly Captcha is a privacy-first anti-bot solution that protects WordPress website forms from spam and abuse.

How scoring works →
83 Health · B
Maintenance 100
Rating quality 73
Support 70

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,379 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+141%
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Trailing 30-day total · the growth curve wp.org stopped showing

Directory rank

Popularity rank over time · lower is better

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

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 “9K+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
9K–10K ≈9.7K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

At the current install trend, crossing 10K+ in roughly 256 days.

Install trend · reconstructed from 1378 daily snapshots

Details

Version
1.17.2
Last updated
22d ago
Added
2009-12-22
Requires WP
5.0
Tested up to
6.8.5
Requires PHP
7.3

Growth timeline

Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow

  1. 2026-06-17 10K+ → 9K+ down after 1 days in band
  2. 2026-06-16 9K+ → 10K+ up after 1 days in band
  3. 2026-06-15 10K+ → 9K+ down after 45 days in band
  4. 2026-05-01 9K+ → 10K+ up after 317 days in band
  5. 2025-06-18 8K+ → 9K+ up after 444 days in band
  6. 2024-03-31 7K+ → 8K+ up after 178 days in band
  7. 2023-10-05 6K+ → 7K+ up after 177 days in band
  8. 2023-04-11 5K+ → 6K+ up after 1 days in band

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Friendly Captcha for WordPress: 9K+ active installs, 3.9★ (18 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-15. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/friendly-captcha