Spam Captcha – Safeguard your WordPress website effortlessly with Spam Captcha for WordPress
by KaizenCoders · Forms
This plugins avoids spam actions on your website (comments and contact form if you use Contact Form 7).
70 health vs 63 average across 1,156 Forms 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.
Well optimized
Biggest win: Rating quality
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
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
57
now · peak 238
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 “200+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-03-17 300+ → 200+ down after 224 days in tier
- 2024-08-05 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2024-08-04 300+ → 400+ up after 3 days in tier
- 2024-08-01 400+ → 300+ down after 298 days in tier
- 2023-10-08 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-10-07 400+ → 500+ up after 6 days in tier
- 2023-10-01 500+ → 400+ down after 236 days in tier
- 2023-02-07 600+ → 500+ down after 1 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Anti-spam Reloaded 2K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags C - B Batch Comment Spam Deletion 1K+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags D
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Comments Shortcode 900+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags C -
Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 6M+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
CleanTalk Anti-Spam. Spam Firewall & Bot protection 200K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
Simple CAPTCHA with Cloudflare Turnstile 100K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
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