Grade B

WP Armour – Honeypot Anti Spam

Name: WP Armour – Honeypot Anti Spam
Rating: 5.0 (1388 reviews)
Author: Dnesscarkey

⤓ Download v2.3.04 on WordPress.org ↗

by Dnesscarkeyupdated 2025-12-20🌿The Dependable Sort

Ditch the annoying captchas for this silent spam killer.

HealthyDeclining

78/100

The plugin provides effective spam protection without captchas. Recent reviews show many low credibility entries.

Loved37/40

Trustworthy10/15

Fair & Honest14/15

Maintained15/18

Momentum2/12

Active installs

~450,000

our estimate · wp.org shows 400k+

Rating

5.0★

1,388 ratings

Trend · vs a year ago

-70%

Declining fast

2,160 → 654 installs/day

What to watch out for

MINORdownloads down 70% vs a year ago

Downloads over time

real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend

2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03

organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median

Declining fast · -70% in the last year

2,160/day a year ago→654/day today

Reviews

what people actually say

WP Armour is a well-regarded honeypot anti-spam plugin praised for its simplicity and effectiveness, with no notable complaints surfacing from users.

What people like

+Effective at blocking spam submissions with no manual intervention required×7
+Very easy to set up and works out of the box×6

Common complaints

Review trustMostly organic

4.98★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 5.00★
31%One-shot reviewers — single-review accounts (common for popular plugins, but worth noting)
past spikeReview timing — up to 27% of all reviews landed in a single month

Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower

2026-02-042026-04-052026-06-04

5★ reviews1–4★ reviews

All-time ratings · 1,388 total

5★

1,369

4★

3★

2★

1★

Latest reviews · 90 analyzed

2026-06-03★★★★★Best ever!maca8291
2026-06-02★★★★★Just PERFECT triplefreedom
2026-06-01★★★★★Todo chachi kranko1-shot
2026-05-30★★★★★It does exactly what it's supposed to do ahmed elhddad
2026-05-30★★★★★Perfect, helps a lot belisamagastro
2026-05-28★★★★★super helpful tooman1-shot
2026-05-26★★★★★A very helpful plugin.triblue1
2026-05-25★★★★★Best Plugin Ever 69eventspace1-shot
2026-05-25★★★★★Great myu1-shot
2026-05-23★★★★★A massive relief juttley

Releases

recent versions from WordPress.org SVN

2025-12-20v2.3.04
2025-10-01v2.3.03
2025-09-13v2.3.02
2025-09-12v2.3
2025-09-12v2.3.01
2025-07-29v2.2.14
2025-07-18v2.2.13
2025-06-10v2.2.12

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For developers & the curious

the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary above

Download 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.

561

Baseline · median of last 7 organic days

666

Prior 7-day baseline

402

Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days

1,587

Mean release-day peak (30d)

613

Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)

-15.8%

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.

27%

Max month share · biggest single 30-day window

0.35

Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty

99%

5★ share in analyzed sample

31%

Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity

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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo

4.99 → 4.98★

Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered