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WPBruiser {no- Captcha anti-Spam}

An extremely powerful antispam plugin that blocks spam-bots without annoying captcha images.

By MihChe·Spam·Free
4.6(213 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 5 years ago
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As of April 2026, WPBruiser {no- Captcha anti-Spam} is a WordPress spam plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 213 reviews. It has been downloaded 689K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 16% this week. Top alternative: Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection.

4.6/5213 reviews
10K+active installs
689K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014

Overview

WPBruiser (formerly GoodBye Captcha) is an anti-spam and security plugin based on algorithms that identify spam bots without any annoying and hard to read captcha images.

WPBruiser completely eliminates spam-bot signups, spam comments, even brute force attacks, the second you install it on your WordPress website. It is completely invisible to the end-user – no need to ever fill out a Captcha or other “human-detection” field ever again – and it just works!

Unlike other anti-spam plugins, which detect spam comments and signups after the fact and move them to your spam folder, which you then have to delete – using up not only your website’s resources, but your time as well, WPBruiser prevents the bots from leaving spam in the first place. The result is th…

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Ratings & Reviews

4.6213 reviews
5 ★
189
4 ★
1
3 ★
5
2 ★
3
1 ★
15

Recent Reviews

Abandoned plugin
by argosmedia·8 months ago

This is an abandoned plugin, however automatic payments for the premium add-ons are still continuing. There is no way to cancel, because the login function, contact form and password reset functions are all not working. The author is gone with the wind. Do not use!

ineffective plugin and constantly taking payments from your credit card
by aeturgut·3 years ago

Never use this plugin. It’s an ineffective plugin. The irony is that even if you cancel your subscription after a while, your registered credit card continues to be charged. There is no access to customer service, no subscription cancellation. In other words, it is quite difficult to ensure your security against an add-on whose job is security. Stay away.

  • This topic was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by aeturgut.
Doesn’t do much
by 2Flow2·3 years ago

We were getting around 10 spam comments per day and installed this to try and help, but it doesn’t seem to do much of anything after letting it run for a couple of weeks. Other reviews on the plugin mention that has been abandoned, so it looks like it might be completely non-functional these days.

Worked great but got abandoned – very sad!
by stefanmeyer2·4 years ago

We love the plugin as it saved us from SPAM registrations via Ultimate Members. We also bought extensions for mailpoet and geo-blocking. All worked great, but unfortunately the plugin got abandoned half year ago. Plugin is no longer maintained and the developer’s website is down. Soooo sad!

Abbandoned
by marbaque·4 years ago

Looks like this was a useful plugin. However, now it is abandoned, developer never answered any questions in the support forum.

Download Trends

Today: 19Yesterday: 24This week: 129Period total: 6K

Compatibility

WordPress4.0+ requiredTested up to 5.5.18
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v3.1
100.0%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

3.1.43

  • Fixed PHP 7.4 warnings
  • Refreshed Country IPs
  • Refreshed WebAttackers IPs
  • Refreshed Proxy IPs
  • Refreshed Incapsula, Amazon and Cloudflare trusted IPs ranges
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

MihCheMihChe
Plugin Info
Version
3.1.43
Last Updated
Oct 14, 2020
WP Requires
4.0+
Tested Up To
5.5.18
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
10K+
Downloads
689K+
Added
Sep 14, 2014
Business
Free

Tags

spamcaptchaantispammailpoetanti-spam

Developer

M
MihChe
2 plugins0.1M+ total installs
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