Friendly Captcha for WordPress

Friendly Captcha for WordPress is a WordPress plugin for Spam Protection. It ranks #26 of 141 in that group by active installs and was last updated 2 weeks ago.

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Slug friendly-captcha

10K Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band

3.9 Rating out of 5 From 18 ratings

74 Releases Since 22 December 2009

Oct 2026 Last release 2 weeks ago

Maintenance check

Is Friendly Captcha for WordPress still maintained?

Yes - by every measure the directory publishes, it is actively maintained.

Updated recently. The last release was 2 weeks ago.
Tested with current WordPress. Tested up to 7.1.4; most actively maintained plugins are tested on 7.1.
Mixed ratings. 3.9 out of 5 from 18 ratings.

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Standing

More installed than 95.5% of the directory

Ahead of 45,575 of the 47,734 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

95.5% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count

45,575 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one

2,158 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band

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The record

Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.

Current version: 1.19.0
Requires WordPress: 5.0
Tested up to: 7.1.4
Requires PHP: 7.3
Added to the directory: 22 December 2009
Last updated: 20 October 2026
Contributors: 1
Author: Friendly Captcha
Support threads resolved: 0 of 1

Its own tags

antispam
captcha
contact form
recaptcha
spam

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