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Text Captcha For Contact Form 7 [GWE]

by Mukul Hossain · Forms

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Adds a text captcha to Contact Form 7

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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48 Health · D
Maintenance 12/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

48 health vs 63 average across 1,677 Forms plugins

10+

Active installs

≈17 estimated

1.6K

Total downloads

since 2022

3.98★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 1 reviews

-9%

51

Downloads · 30d

category median +22%

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

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.

58 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 21/100
WP compatibility 68/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1003 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,427 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-9% vs prior 30d
4Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

51

now · peak 160

5130d downloads · Sep 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

Text Captcha For Con · #28707 you Contact Form 7 Text · #5340 LukasApps CAPTCHA to · #451 SilentShield · #1859

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.

5.1Kper 1k installs · Sep 26

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.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
10–20 ≈17

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,381 observations

10Installs · Sep 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 · 1 reviews

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5★
1 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.0.3
Last updated
2.7y ago
Added
2022-07-07 · 4 yrs old
Requires WP
4.7
Tested up to
6.4.10
Requires PHP
7.0
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ Sujit Krishna Kundu
    4.2y ago

    It great plugin for spam protection. I really enjoyed using with cf7. Thanks

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.4.1

✓ 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. 2026-03-02 20+ → 10+ down after 506 days in tier
  2. 2024-10-12 10+ → 20+ up after 207 days in tier
  3. 2024-03-19 20+ → 10+ down after 63 days in tier
  4. 2024-01-16 10+ → 20+ up after 42 days in tier
  5. 2023-12-05 20+ → 10+ down after 28 days in tier
  6. 2023-11-07 10+ → 20+ up after 76 days in tier
  7. 2023-08-23 20+ → 10+ down after 1 days in tier
  8. 2023-08-22 10+ → 20+ up after 91 days in tier

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Text Captcha For Contact Form 7 [GWE]: 10+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-09-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/text-captcha-for-contact-form-7