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Spam Captcha – Safeguard your WordPress website effortlessly with Spam Captcha for WordPress

by KaizenCoders · Forms

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This plugins avoids spam actions on your website (comments and contact form if you use Contact Form 7).

⚠ Few reviews
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67 Health · C
Maintenance 63/100
Rating quality 69/100
Support 70/100

67 health vs 63 average across 1,678 Forms plugins

100+

Active installs

≈150 estimated

34.1K

Total downloads

since 2011

3.77★

Rating (adjusted)

3.0★ raw · 2 reviews

+43%

93

Downloads · 30d

category median +22%

Directory ranking optimization

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How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

80 / 100

Well optimized

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 71/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+43% vs prior 30d
1Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

93

now · peak 238

9330d 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

Spam Captcha · #12996 you Kama SpamBlock · #3303 Anti-spam Reloaded · #5173 Batch Comment Spam D · #6883

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3Stars · 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.

930per 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.

1

releases in the last 12 months

12mo ago

latest release · v1.4.7

17

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.4.7 · 12mo ago1.4.6 · 1.0y ago1.4.5 · 1.0y ago1.4.4 · 2.5y ago1.4.3 · 3.2y ago1.4.1 · 10.4y ago1.4.0 · 11.5y ago1.3.9 · 12.1y ago1.3.8 · 12.2y ago1.3.7 · 12.2y ago1.3.6 · 12.2y ago1.3.5 · 12.4y ago1.3.4 · 12.5y ago1.3.3 · 13.2y ago

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.

v1.4 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈150

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

Install history · since 2015-03-10 · 1,395 observations

100Installs · 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.

Ratings · 2 reviews

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5★
1 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
1

Details

Version
1.4.7
Last updated
12mo ago
Added
2011-09-17 · 14 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
6.8.8
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ penseelibre
    13.4y ago

    it seems realy good : for example choise the place it is easy. Image ok……

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  2. ★★★★★ lydiasnider
    13.6y ago

    I used to really like this plugin & recommend it to others. This morning moments after updating the plugin my website got bombarded with spam comments. It’s almost as if it turned my site into a beacon for spammers.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.2

✓ 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. 2026-08-07 200+ → 100+ down after 508 days in tier
  2. 2025-03-17 300+ → 200+ down after 224 days in tier
  3. 2024-08-05 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
  4. 2024-08-04 300+ → 400+ up after 3 days in tier
  5. 2024-08-01 400+ → 300+ down after 298 days in tier
  6. 2023-10-08 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
  7. 2023-10-07 400+ → 500+ up after 6 days in tier
  8. 2023-10-01 500+ → 400+ down after 236 days in tier

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