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reCAPTCHA for Ninja Forms

by Aman · Forms

Also makes 10 other plugins · 7.3K+ installs across the portfolio →

Adds reCAPTCHA field to Ninja Forms.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
50 Health · D
Maintenance 11/100
Rating quality 79/100
Support 70/100

50 health vs 63 average across 1,679 Forms plugins

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

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.

60 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 20/100
WP compatibility 68/100
Rating quality 60/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1025 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 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+40% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

189

now · peak 567

18330d 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

reCAPTCHA for Ninja · #8433 you G-Forms hCaptcha · #4220 Gravity Slider Field · #4352 Advanced Custom Fiel · #6335

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.

305per 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.2 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “600+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
600–700 ≈660

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

Install history · since 2015-08-15 · 1,425 observations

600Installs · 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 small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.2.5
Last updated
2.8y ago
Added
2015-03-20 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
3.5
Tested up to
6.4.10
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. solutioinc
    7.6y ago

    Can’t activate this plugin since it is not compatible with the latest version of Ninja Forms. update: Apparently Nina Forms supports reCaptcha by default. Removed 1 star review. This topic was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by solutioinc.

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  2. spikemcq
    8.4y ago

    Easy to use and works wonderfully

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  3. Tony Girling
    8.4y ago

    Arrgh!! Not compatible with latest Ninja. Update or take it off the Plugin site please. This topic was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by Tony Girling.

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  4. alextang1030
    9.3y ago

    That is a great plugin, however it doesn’t support multi form in the same page. So I do some edit by my own. I added a new wp_print_scripts function so the api.js will call in the header but not under every recaptcha div And add a new onload js function for render the recaptcha.

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  5. jonitsahsne
    9.4y ago

    I am using Ninja Forms 2.9 due to compatibility issues of addons. This works perfectly.

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  6. BijouFashion
    9.7y ago

    Upon activation, there was a message that came up saying this plugin is not compatible with Ninja Forms version 3 and then it automatically deactivated the plugin.

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  7. leonggoh
    9.8y ago

    Great

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  8. snitzr
    11.2y ago

    I use Ninja forms and was looking to add reCAPTCHA. This was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

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

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-06-19 700+ → 600+ down after 147 days in tier
  2. 2026-01-23 800+ → 700+ down after 78 days in tier
  3. 2025-11-06 900+ → 800+ down after 2 days in tier
  4. 2025-11-04 800+ → 900+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2025-11-03 900+ → 800+ down after 171 days in tier
  6. 2025-05-16 1K+ → 900+ down after 606 days in tier
  7. 2023-09-18 2K+ → 1K+ down

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reCAPTCHA for Ninja Forms: 600+ active installs, 4.5★ (8 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/ninja-forms-recaptcha-field