reCAPTCHA Lite
by Malik Naik · Uncategorized
Integrate the Google's reCAPTCHA Google's reCAPTCHA v2 Checkbox or v3 into the forms and protect your site from bots, brute-force attacks, s …
41 health vs 58 average across 7,940 Uncategorized 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 2277 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
32
now · peak 112
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 “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,376 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
No band crossings observed yet.
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Simple CAPTCHA with Cloudflare Turnstile 100K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
BBQ Firewall – Fast & Powerful Firewall Security 100K+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags A -
Login No Captcha reCAPTCHA 60K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A -
Mailster reCaptcha 1K+ installs · 3.4★ · 2 shared tags D -
Magic robots.txt 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B -
Hizzle CAPTCHA – Protect your forms from spam 500+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/recaptcha-lite" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="reCAPTCHA Lite — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> reCAPTCHA Lite: 100+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/recaptcha-lite