Spam Protection Without Captcha
by Shamim Hasan · Security
Protect Login, Register, Lost & Reset Password, Comment, woocommerce, CF7, bbpress, BuddyPress forms.
46 health vs 63 average across 617 Security 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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.5.18.
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 2174 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
33
now · peak 2.0K
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.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,372 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2024-10-15 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-10-14 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in band
- 2024-10-12 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in band
- 2024-10-10 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in band
- 2024-10-09 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-10-08 100+ → 200+ up after 4 days in band
- 2024-10-04 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in band
- 2024-10-02 100+ → 200+ up after 3 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Advanced Invisible Anti-Spam 300+ installs · 4.1★ · 4 shared tags D -
CleanTalk Anti-Spam. Spam Firewall & Bot protection 200K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags A - M Math Quiz 300+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D
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Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 6M+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
Simple CAPTCHA with Cloudflare Turnstile 100K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
Gravity Forms Zero Spam 100K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A
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