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reCAPTCHA for WooCommerce
A free bot blocker for classic WooCommerce checkouts.
Growing
66/100
It provides free bot protection for legacy checkouts but lacks Gutenberg support.
Active installs
~45,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 40k+
Rating
4.6★
75 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+7%
Growing
116 → 125 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORnot updated in 7 months
- MINORreview volume down 60% vs prior 6mo
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 · +7% in the last year
116/day a year ago→125/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayreCAPTCHA for WooCommerce is a lightweight, free plugin that works well for basic bot-blocking on WooCommerce checkouts, but carries real reliability concerns including a bypass flaw, broken payment-method exclusions, and incompatibility with the newer Gutenberg block-based checkout.
What people like
- +Effective at reducing bot traffic and spam signups on checkout×5
- +Easy to set up and use×4
- +Free to use
Common complaints
- −Only supports Google reCAPTCHA v2, which is considered less effective than v3
- −Checkout can be completed without passing the reCAPTCHA check, defeating its purpose
- −Payment-method exclusion feature does not work correctly — reCAPTCHA persists even when a payment method is set to be skipped
- −Not compatible with the new WooCommerce Gutenberg block-based checkout; only works with the legacy template-based checkout
- −Some users could not get the plugin to work at all
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.66★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.60★
- 11%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 75 total
Latest reviews · 75 analyzed
- 2026-05-14★★★★★Nice, but has issuesChad Cloman
- 2026-03-30★★★★★Simple and worksbowerwebsolutions
- 2026-03-10★★★★★Best Pluginalexeysynkov
- 2026-03-09★★★★★One of best pluginsUsama
- 2025-11-22★★★★★Good pluginJason1-shot
- 2025-10-11★★★★★BestSuresh Lasantha
- 2025-10-10★★★★★Just Worksgregdeputy
- 2025-09-24★★★★★Does Not Workcustomk9
- 2025-09-23★★★★★Wouldn't workwplogin12
- 2025-08-29★★★★★ReCaptchaRobinson Estuardo Sarmiento Ortega
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to reCAPTCHA for WooCommerce
Top WooCommerce plugins, ranked by score.For 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.
125
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
124
Prior 7-day baseline
105
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
247
Mean release-day peak (30d)
132
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+0.8%
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.
8%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.77
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
87%
5★ share in analyzed sample
11%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-60%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.59 → 4.66★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered