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hCaptcha for WP

hCaptcha for WP

Security Spam Protection

hCaptcha for WP is a WordPress plugin for Spam Protection. It ranks #17 of 141 in that group by active installs and was last updated 7 days ago.

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Slug hcaptcha-for-forms-and-more

70K Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band
4.6 Rating out of 5 From 88 ratings
114 Releases Since 2 May 2019
Oct 2026 Last release 7 days ago

Maintenance check

Is hCaptcha for WP still maintained?

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

  • Updated recently. The last release was 7 days ago.
  • Tested with current WordPress. Tested up to 7.1.4; most actively maintained plugins are tested on 7.1.
  • Support is answered. 7 of 7 forum threads in the last two months were resolved.
  • Well rated. 4.6 out of 5 from 88 ratings.

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Standing

More installed than 98.7% of the directory

Ahead of 47,119 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.

98.7% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count
47,119 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one
614 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band
How to read that

The directory rounds install counts hard and publishes them as bands, so two plugins showing the same number are not necessarily level. The percentile is computed over the plugins that report a count at all, which excludes the quarter of the directory sitting on the reporting floor.

Details

The record

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

Current version
5.5.0
Requires WordPress
6.0
Tested up to
7.1.4
Requires PHP
7.4
Added to the directory
2 May 2019
Last updated
30 October 2026
Contributors
2
Author
hcaptcha
Support threads resolved
7 of 7

Its own tags

  • antispam
  • captcha
  • hcaptcha
  • recaptcha
  • spam

Free text typed by the plugin author. The statistics page explains why they are not a taxonomy.

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