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WP Login Image Captcha

by hookandhook · Login & Users

Also makes 6 other plugins · 101.2K+ installs across the portfolio →

Adds an image captcha and honeypot to the WordPress login page

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 59 average across 1,442 Login & Users plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance 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 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.27, well behind 6.8.

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.

35 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 1/100
WP compatibility 11/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2793 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+40% vs prior 30d
4Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

123

now · peak 190

12330d 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

WP Login Image Captc · #10851 you BotBlocker Security · #3797 Admintosh · #16577 Ultimate Security · #29925

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.

410per 1k installs · Aug 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.

v1.2 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “300+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
300–400 ≈390

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

Install history · since 2019-09-05 · 1,386 observations

300Installs · 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.

Details

Version
1.2
Last updated
7.7y ago
Added
2015-10-31 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
3.5
Tested up to
5.0.27
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. digiwombat
    7.0y ago

    This is a simple, easy to understand captcha system that just works in place, even with 2FA solutions. I saw bot login attempts decrease by hundreds per day on my higher traffic sites as soon as I turned it on. Best and most crucially, it’s not Google’s terrible ReCaptcha system which drives otherwise happy users away from interacting with your content.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  2. Hiren Dahime
    8.0y ago

    Its a best plug in to stop spammers to log-in to your wordpress website.

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

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. 2023-10-08 200+ → 300+ up

Competes with

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WP Login Image Captcha: 300+ active installs, 5.0★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-login-image-captcha