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reCaptcha by WebDesignBy

reCaptcha by WebDesignBy

Security Firewall & Site Security

reCaptcha by WebDesignBy is a WordPress plugin for Firewall & Site Security. It ranks #168 of 205 in that group by active installs and was last updated 5 months ago.

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Slug webdesignby-recaptcha

200 Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band
5.0 Rating out of 5 From 2 ratings
4 Releases Since 16 January 2015
Jun 2026 Last release 5 months ago

Maintenance check

Is reCaptcha by WebDesignBy still maintained?

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

  • Updated recently. The last release was 5 months ago.
  • Slightly behind on testing. Tested up to 7.0.8, while current plugins are tested on 7.1.

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Standing

More installed than 72.8% of the directory

Ahead of 34,752 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.

72.8% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count
34,752 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one
12,981 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
2.0
Requires WordPress
3.0.1
Tested up to
7.0.8
Added to the directory
16 January 2015
Last updated
15 June 2026
Contributors
1
Author
webdesignby

Its own tags

  • captcha
  • re captcha
  • recaptcha
  • security
  • wp-admin

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