Captcha Code
GDPR compatible captcha anti-spam protection for login form, comments form, registration form & lost password form. Eliminate spam with captcha.
3.8(34 reviews)
·100K+ active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, Captcha Code is a WordPress captcha plugin with 100K+ active installations and a 3.8/5 rating from 34 reviews. It has been downloaded 685K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP 5.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Downloads are down 11% this week. Top alternative: SiteGuard WP Plugin.
3.8/534 reviews
100K+active installs
685K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
Adds GDPR compatible captcha code anti-spam protection to WordPress forms – comments form, registration form, lost password form, and login form. In order to post comments or register, users have to type in the code shown on the image. This prevents spam from automated bots & adds security. No external services (like Google ReCaptcha) are used. No API keys are needed, and no user-identifiable data is used so it’s GDPR compatible.
Features
- Captcha position – comments form, login form, registration form, or lost password form.
- Letters type – capital letters, small letters, or captial & small letters.
- Captcha type – alphanumeric, alphabets or numbers.
- Translation enabled.
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Ratings & Reviews
3.834 reviews
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Recent Reviews
invalid code
by cilycwmweb·1 month ago
seems to produce the same code nearly every time and fails. if I change from numeric code to alphanumeric code it still produces the same numeric code. and it still fails.
They doing spam
by Atikur Rahman Shohel·8 months ago·1 reply
I got surprised that, my fresh website sudden installed this plugin automatically. Even i never seen their name ever. They hide the plugin from WP Plugin list and uses as core plugin and uses option on WP Setting. Offering premium plan and doing huge spam. I recommend WP to remove their plugin for doing spam marketing and fraud install.
Not good
by Dipto Nath·1 year ago
Waste of time,
it slows down your site
by vitaligs·1 year ago
A PHP session was created by a session_start() function call. This interferes with REST API and loopback requests. The session should be closed by session_write_close() before making any HTTP requests.
on the file wpcaptcha.php you should fix line 40 to 44 with this
if ( !session_id() )
{ session_start( [ ‘read_and_close’ => true, ] ); }
I had to find it my way out
working yey
by galo·2 years ago
I hope it’s harder to get around
Download Trends
Today: 242Yesterday: 279This week: 2KPeriod total: 180K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.2+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.3
67.3%
v3.2
24.2%
Other
8.4%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
3.3
- 2025/08/04
- minor code fixes
Contributors
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