Registration Honeypot

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Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.

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0 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

Directory rank

Ranked about #10,100 to #11,100, alongside the other plugins at 300+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.

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

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.

Crossed into this band 9 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ JohnRoyce

   9.3y ago

   UPDATED 12/26/18: Ok, so this plugin author will NOT update his plugin. Contacted him to no avail. I solved the issue myself by deleting the plugin. Maybe the world has moved on, because the spam level is no worse, so it truly seems without worth. Except now I’m not plagued by warnings about the outdated work of a foolish programmer. ORIGINAL REVIEW: It simply works without fanfare, dependably cutting a swath in the advancing line of spam by doing exactly what it purports to do. The plugin comes with the explanation that it does not address every kind of spam, just one very annoying common type. It’s also the easiest plugin possible, you just install and activate. No spam, no premium offers. Just a free service – thank you! Justin Tadlock is a respected programmer, and this quiet little plugin is an example why. Ok sure maybe I wish the plugin was updated more regularly/formally, just for administrative clarity, but the developer seems comfortable there isn’t need for alteration. I trust that is true, and indeed it still works! This topic was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by JohnRoyce. This topic was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by JohnRoyce.

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2. ★★★★★ andygc1

   10.8y ago

   Such a shame. I installed it 6 months ago on WordPress 4.2. Brilliant. Not a single spammer. About 10 days ago the spam registrations returned as much as before. I’ve subsequently got around to upgrading to 4.4.2 so the failure is nothing to do with upgrading WordPress. Somebody has written a honeypot detector.

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3. ★★★★★ henryviii

   11.3y ago

   Tried this as others seem to break my site but this does not work at all. If anything I have been getting more now than I was before

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4. ★★★★★ Hector Cabrera

   11.4y ago

   A must have for sites with open user registrations. Thank you, Justin!

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5. ★★★★★ pazzaglia

   11.8y ago

   I had to disable “Stop Spammer Registrations” plug-in because I added a CDN that showed everyone as coming from the same IP address – therefore rendering the plug-in useless. I immediately began drowning in BOT registrations, getting two or more registrations PER MINUTE onto my website. This is not only a drain on the CPU resources of the shared server my site is hosted on, but it slows down my mailing list of legitimate subscribers quite a bit (as I can only send 1,000 e-mails per hour). Well the moment I enabled this plug-in (an hour ago) the crappy spam registrations stopped. So far so good (hey that’s AT LEAST 120 spam registrations stopped in 60 minutes). Thank you Justin!! Keep up the great work. Ciao, L UPDATE: Three days later, this plug-in still rocks!!

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6. ★★★★★ comarsky

   12.1y ago

   a must have these days

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7. ★★★★★ curiousNST

   12.5y ago

   Works like a charm…problem taken care of instantly. Thank you!

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8. ★★★★★ volresource

   12.5y ago

   I had thought that the spam registration robots hitting my site recently were more sophisticated, but no. Nothing for the last day or so, fingers crossed. Thanks!

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Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

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Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-01-29 400+ → 300+ down after 107 days in tier
2. 2025-10-14 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
3. 2025-10-13 400+ → 500+ up after 2 days in tier
4. 2025-10-11 500+ → 400+ down after 330 days in tier
5. 2024-11-15 600+ → 500+ down after 464 days in tier
6. 2023-08-09 700+ → 600+ down after 1 days in tier
7. 2023-08-08 600+ → 700+ up after 7 days in tier
8. 2023-08-01 700+ → 600+ down after 1 days in tier

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Registration Honeypot: 300+ active installs, 3.5★ (8 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-02. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/registration-honeypot