Spam Destroyer: stats, alternatives & is it maintained?

Maintenance check

Is Spam Destroyer still maintained?

Mostly - but at least one sign below is worth checking before you rely on it.

No release for a while. The last one was 6 months ago.
Slightly behind on testing. Tested up to 7.0.8, while current plugins are tested on 7.1.
Well rated. 4.6 out of 5 from 54 ratings.

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Spam Destroyer alternatives

The most-installed plugins doing the same job, from Spam Protection. Spam Destroyer itself ranks #48 of 141. How plugins are grouped.

#1

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contact-form-7-honeypot 300K installs · 3.8 stars #4

Really Simple CAPTCHA

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Anti-Spam, Spam FireWall by CleanTalk

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Standing

More installed than 93.3% of the directory

Ahead of 44,525 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.

93.3% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count

44,525 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one

3,208 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.

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