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GC Testimonials with reCAPTCHA

by trishahdee · Forms

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GC Testimonials with reCAPTCHA adds spam blocking capability to the popular GC Testimonials plugin.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
44 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 72/100
Support 70/100

44 health vs 68 average across 641 Forms plugins

20+

Active installs

≈29 estimated

2.7K

Total downloads

since 2014

3.91★

Rating (adjusted)

4.0★ raw · 1 reviews

-51%

49

Downloads · 30d

trailing 30 days

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance 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 12+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40, 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.

36 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 3/100
Rating quality 50/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4447 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-51% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

49

now · peak 127

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

GC Testimonials with · #27391 FIFO Testimonials · #29523 TC Testimonials · #10174 Super Testimonials · #11154

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 “20+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
20–30 ≈29

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations

Ratings · 1 reviews

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5★
0 4★
1 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.3.2
Last updated
12.2y ago
Added
2014-05-14 · 12 yrs on WP
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
3.9.40
Requires PHP
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Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-06-28 30+ → 20+ down after 1 days in band
  2. 2025-06-27 20+ → 30+ up after 26 days in band
  3. 2025-06-01 30+ → 20+ down after 5 days in band
  4. 2025-05-27 20+ → 30+ up after 7 days in band
  5. 2025-05-20 30+ → 20+ down after 305 days in band
  6. 2024-07-19 40+ → 30+ down after 180 days in band
  7. 2024-01-21 50+ → 40+ down after 36 days in band
  8. 2023-12-16 40+ → 50+ up after 1 days in band

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