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Easy Spam Filter – Privacy-Friendly CAPTCHA Alternative with Turnstile for Contact Form 7, WPForms, BuddyPress, Elementor

by WPPOOL · Security

Also makes 10 other plugins · 31.2K+ installs across the portfolio →

Add Cloudflare Turnstile to WordPress, Contact Form 7, WooCommerce, WPForms, BuddyPress & Elementor. A CAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA alternative for WordPress.

⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
83 Health · B
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 73/100
Support 70/100

83 health vs 64 average across 997 Security plugins

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.

90 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 58/100
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 2022-10-16 · 1,414 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+7% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

408

now · peak 1.5K

39830d 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

Easy Spam Filter · #6249 you Kitgenix CAPTCHA for · #8185 Simple CAPTCHA with · #276 Login Security Captc · #2132

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4Stars · 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.

398per 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.

3

releases in the last 12 months

3mo ago

latest release · v2.3.12

33

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.3.12 · 3mo ago2.3.11 · 11mo ago2.3.10 · 12mo ago2.3.9 · 1.4y ago2.3.8 · 2.4y ago2.3.7 · 2.4y ago2.3.6 · 2.7y ago2.3.5 · 2.9y ago2.3.4 · 3.1y ago2.3.3 · 3.1y ago2.3.2 · 3.1y ago2.3.1 · 3.2y ago2.3.0 · 3.2y ago2.2.1 · 3.3y 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.

v2.3 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
1K–2K ≈1.9K

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

Install history · since 2022-10-15 · 1,411 observations

1KInstalls · 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
2.3.12
Last updated
3mo ago
Added
2022-10-14 · 3 yrs old
Requires WP
5.4
Tested up to
7.0.4
Requires PHP
5.6

Recent reviews

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  1. Vassos Hadjivassiliou
    9mo ago

    I had a lot of issues with spam lately. I didn’t know WPPOOL offered this amazing plugin for free. I used it on my site and I am extremely happy with it. Thank you guys

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  2. jhouCCC
    2.7y ago

    I opened a ticket informing that the woocomerce plugin, when completing the order, places the captcha in the login option when it is activated on this page, instead of the checkout form. In addition to this problem, I didn’t have any sales for 10 days, and today I discovered that the problem is due to the captcha making it impossible to log in to WooCommerce, generating an error on the page: wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

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  3. cbroce
    3.3y ago

    Super easy to use an well implemente with elementor

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  4. Christian Feiland
    3.9y ago

    The description of the installation for sure does not work with my theme. Not easy to find the 2-3 codes to be replaced. Can’t say how it works, since it is too much work to install.

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  5. Md. Tasnim Alam
    3.9y ago

    Very good plugin, highly recommended.

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  6. sajal8421
    3.9y ago

    Best CAPTCHA Solution wp plugin. This topic was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by sajal8421.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  7. Suman Ali
    3.9y ago

    That’s awesome! Integrated CloudFlare Turnstile in my WordPress site in just a few minutes 😉 very lightweight and easy. Thanks for the plugin.

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 4 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Russian 53%
German (Formal) 43%
Japanese 41%
German 28%

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2024-11-25 900+ → 1K+ up after 1 days in tier
  2. 2024-11-24 1K+ → 900+ down after 1 days in tier
  3. 2024-11-23 900+ → 1K+ up after 58 days in tier
  4. 2024-09-26 800+ → 900+ up after 129 days in tier
  5. 2024-05-20 700+ → 800+ up after 44 days in tier
  6. 2024-04-06 600+ → 700+ up after 36 days in tier
  7. 2024-03-01 500+ → 600+ up after 77 days in tier
  8. 2023-12-15 400+ → 500+ up after 60 days in tier

Competes with

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