Text Captcha For Contact Form 7 [GWE]
by Mukul Hossain · Forms
Adds a text captcha to Contact Form 7
49 health vs 64 average across 1,078 Forms plugins
Removal-risk signals
28/100Maintenance 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.
Room to improve
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 957 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
52
now · peak 160
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 “10+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-03-02 20+ → 10+ down after 506 days in band
- 2024-10-12 10+ → 20+ up after 207 days in band
- 2024-03-19 20+ → 10+ down after 63 days in band
- 2024-01-16 10+ → 20+ up after 42 days in band
- 2023-12-05 20+ → 10+ down after 28 days in band
- 2023-11-07 10+ → 20+ up after 76 days in band
- 2023-08-23 20+ → 10+ down after 1 days in band
- 2023-08-22 10+ → 20+ up after 91 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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Contact Form 7 Text CAPTCHA 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 5 shared tags C -
Contact Form 7 Captcha 100K+ installs · 4.1★ · 4 shared tags B -
SilentShield – Captcha & Anti-Spam for WordPress (CF7, WPForms, Elementor, WooCommerce) 10K+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags A - R reCaptcha Add-On for FormCraft 7K+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags D
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Anti-spam, Spam protection, ReCaptcha for all forms and GDPR-compliant 4K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags B -
CF7 Apps – Honeypot, Database, Redirection, Webhook, and Addons for Contact Form 7 300K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags A
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