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Login No Captcha reCAPTCHA

by Robert Peake · Security

Also makes 3 other plugins · 61.2K+ installs across the portfolio →

Adds a Google No Captcha ReCaptcha checkbox to your Wordpress and Woocommerce login, forgot password, and user registration pages.

How scoring works →
87 Health · A
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 85/100
Support 70/100

87 health vs 64 average across 997 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.

97 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Well tuned across the board

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 86/100
Listing tuning 100/100

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,421 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-23% vs prior 30d
172Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

6.9K

now · peak 49.3K

6.8K30d downloads · Aug 26

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

Login No Captcha reC · #686 you BBQ Firewall · #342 Shield Security · #923 Blackhole for Bad Bo · #960

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.5Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

114per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

2

releases in the last 12 months

3mo ago

latest release · v1.8.1

42

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.8.1 · 3mo ago1.8 · 3mo ago1.7.3 · 2.5y ago1.7.2 · 2.8y ago1.7.1 · 3.6y ago1.7 · 4.0y ago1.6.11 · 5.1y ago1.6.10 · 6.3y ago1.6.8 · 6.3y ago1.6.9 · 6.3y ago1.6.7 · 6.6y ago1.6.6 · 6.7y ago1.6.5 · 6.8y ago1.6.4 · 7.3y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 44% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.8 44%
v1.7 43%
v1.6 10%
Older / other versions 2.6%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “60K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
60K–70K ≈67K

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

Install history · since 2015-05-27 · 1,458 observations

60KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A declining trend compresses what a buyer would pay.

Details

Version
1.8.1
Last updated
3mo ago
Added
2015-04-17 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
4.6
Tested up to
7.0.4
Requires PHP
7.4

Recent reviews

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  1. dnsss
    1.6y ago

    This plugin may not perform checks using secret keys on the backend.You can still log in even if you use the wrong secret key.It just shows a checkbox.

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  2. salim2005
    1.8y ago

    Hello, I really hope that you will not ignore this issue! The captcha is not displayed on such pages of the site as “order a callback” and “registration”. It is also interesting that there is a captcha on the login page and it works! To be honest, it bothers me.

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  3. Naovy G
    1.9y ago

    Thank you for letting us to use this Recaptcha plugin for free. It works great functionally, but It does not look OK. At the moment, ReCaptcha is not postioned properly on login forms and partly cut off (left side). It seems this happens with this plugin only. This topic was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by Naovy G. This topic was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by Naovy G.

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  4. gerarde
    2.1y ago

    An excellent no fuss, and extremely lightweight, reCaptcha plug-in.

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  5. ashique12009
    3.1y ago

    Thanks it works simply!

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  6. IreneLinda
    3.9y ago

    Wow, it works! I’ve been so frustrated for weeks with a Contact form whose reCAPTCHA would not work due to a conflict with the NoCaptcha ReCaptcha for WooCommerce plugin. That plugin is no longer supported as they told me when I contacted them. I didn’t know where to turn for a replacement. We had been getting tons of fake registrations on our WooCommerce Account page and that plugin stopped them. Anyway I found this plugin, read some reviews and thought I’d try it out on our stage site. It’s only just installed there so my excitement is perhaps premature, but I am so excited to see our WPForms contact form reCAPTCHA working again, even on the stage site, that I wanted to let the developers know how grateful I am. I’ll post some more thoughts once I’ve installed it on the live site and tried it out for a few days. It was SO easy to install and the directions were also easy to follow. I liked their warning to test on a different browser to ensure you could log in to your site before saving the keys. Great advice! Thanks for creating this plugin. I am delighted with it … and you guys for creating it. Linda

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  7. jgmm81
    4.0y ago

    Thanks in advanced for your nice job, works very well Five stars!

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  8. Jeff Starr
    4.3y ago

    Great plugin but really needs wildcard support for “Whitelist IP” setting. Many ISPs change IP addresses constantly, so it’s a pain to have to always go in and manually add another IP address to the list. I posted a support topic asking for wildcard support about 10 months ago, but zero replies from the plugin developer. Wildcard support would change my rating to 5 stars easy. Otherwise I’ll eventually fork this plugin and add the wildcard myself (it’s trivial to do). Thanks to the developers for this great plugin. This topic was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Jeff Starr. This topic was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Jeff Starr.

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 1.8.1 Security: remove insecure cURL fallback that disabled SSL peer verification; verification failure now blocks login and surfaces an admin notice Security: escape API key and secret fields in settings page HTML attribute c 1.8.1
  2. Version 1.8 Security: escape output in admin notices to prevent stored XSS Security: escape PHP_SELF value before storing in database Security: escape site key in reCAPTCHA widget output Replace deprecated FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING (re 1.8
  3. Version 1.7.3 Bumped compatiblity 1.7.3
  4. Version 1.7.2 Bumped compatiblity 1.7.2
  5. Version 1.7.1 Bumped compatiblity 1.7 = – Display information about the security implications of using the whitelist feature 1.7.1
  6. Version 1.6.11 Backwards compatbility fix for PHP 1.6.11

Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

2 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

  1. 2026-05-27 CVE-2026-2374 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.8.0 Patched in 1.8.1
  2. 2022-08-16 CVE-2022-2913 Improper Authorization Affects <= 1.6.11 Patched in 1.7

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 15 languages, 7 at 90% or more

Dutch 95%
Dutch (Belgium) 95%
Galician 95%
Spanish (Chile) 95%
Spanish (Spain) 95%
German 90%
German (Formal) 90%
Swedish 86%
Spanish (Colombia) 83%
Spanish (Ecuador) 83%
Spanish (Venezuela) 83%
Chinese (China) 79%
Danish 79%
French (France) 58%
Italian 18%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-12-25 70K+ → 60K+ down after 273 days in tier
  2. 2025-03-27 80K+ → 70K+ down after 1 days in tier
  3. 2025-03-26 70K+ → 80K+ up after 2 days in tier
  4. 2025-03-24 80K+ → 70K+ down after 1 days in tier
  5. 2025-03-23 70K+ → 80K+ up after 1 days in tier
  6. 2025-03-22 80K+ → 70K+ down after 257 days in tier
  7. 2024-07-08 90K+ → 80K+ down after 1 days in tier
  8. 2024-07-07 80K+ → 90K+ up after 1 days in tier

Competes with

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