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Contact Form 7 Captcha
Reliable captcha tools with a frustratingly silent support team.
HealthyGrowing
77/100
The plugin provides useful captcha options but suffers from poor support and occasional breakage.
Active installs
~150,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
4.1★
48 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+71%
Growing fast
195 → 332 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +71% in the last year
195/day a year ago→332/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayContact Form 7 Captcha is a simple, free captcha integration plugin that works reliably for many users but is held back by poor support responsiveness, occasional compatibility breakage, and a few recurring functional complaints.
What people like
- +Works as expected for adding captcha (reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha) to Contact Form 7 with minimal setup×6
- +Free to use, appreciated by users on a budget
- +Fixes captcha required-field validation issues that CF7's built-in solution does not handle
Common complaints
- −Support forum requests frequently go unanswered, with a long history of ignored threads×2
- −Plugin can break Contact Form 7 forms entirely, preventing submission
- −Captcha error message persists even after the checkbox is successfully checked, blocking form use
- −Permission error encountered when saving Cloudflare settings
- −Infrequent updates raise concerns about long-term maintenance
- −Instructions and documentation are insufficient for setup
- −Missing language support (Albanian flagged specifically)
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.08★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.10★
- 19%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 33% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-08-132025-07-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 48 total
Latest reviews · 48 analyzed
- 2025-09-26★★★★★Php version 8.3 compatible?juliettemaison19921-shot
- 2025-06-20★★★★★Functional – Works like a charmmichae2l
- 2025-05-27★★★★★Works just fineTaha Kazi
- 2025-03-15★★★★★MISSING ALBANIAN LANGUAGE !fredonjo
- 2025-03-05★★★★★Fonctionne parfaitement pour hcaptchaalkenia
- 2024-10-04★★★★★Plugin Doesn't Work ProperlyPavas Dave
- 2024-08-03★★★★★Plugin doesn’t workmaxwell911
- 2024-08-03★★★★★Plugin doesn't workpiergio1
- 2024-08-03★★★★★Zero Support from the Plugin AuthorBliss7
- 2023-05-24★★★★★simply bestzamaan
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
331
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
289
Prior 7-day baseline
212
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
352
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+14.5%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
33%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.81
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
73%
5★ share in analyzed sample
19%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.10 → 4.08★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered