Frontend Dashboard Captcha
by M A Vinoth Kumar · Admin & Utilities
Frontend Dashboard Captcha WordPress plugin is a supportive plugin for Frontend Dashboard to protect against spam in Login and Register form.
45 health vs 59 average across 1,154 Admin & Utilities plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.4.19.
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 2251 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 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
131
now · peak 64.0K
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 “80+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-06-15 90+ → 80+ down after 1 days in band
- 2026-06-14 80+ → 90+ up after 15 days in band
- 2026-05-30 90+ → 80+ down after 1 days in band
- 2026-05-29 80+ → 90+ up after 3 days in band
- 2026-05-26 90+ → 80+ down after 1 days in band
- 2026-05-25 80+ → 90+ up after 2 days in band
- 2026-05-23 90+ → 80+ down after 13 days in band
- 2026-05-10 80+ → 90+ up after 1 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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White Label CMS 200K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A -
Captcha Code 100K+ installs · 3.9★ · 1 shared tag B -
Display PHP Version 30K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag D -
Remove Dashboard Access 30K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A -
Automattic For Agencies Client 20K+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag B
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