Its last release was 31 months ago. No release in over two years.
This measures maintenance, not quality. A small, finished plugin that genuinely needed no changes in three years grades ABANDONED here and may still be the right choice. What the grade tells you is whether anyone is there if something breaks.
By Sudar Muthu, tested up to WordPress 6.4.10. Listing on wordpress.org.
Sharing this plugin's own tags, filtered to ones that are still shipping.
| Silent for | Installs | Plugin | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0mo | 5,000,000 | Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection Automattic · via comments | 4.7★ |
| 0mo | 700,000 | Antispam Bee pluginkollektiv · via comments | 4.8★ |
| 2mo | 600,000 | Sucuri Security – Auditing, Malware Scanner and Security Hardening Sucuri · via spam | 4.2★ |
| 6mo | 300,000 | WP Mail Logging Syed Balkhi · via spam | 4.7★ |
| 3mo | 200,000 | ReCaptcha v2 for Contact Form 7 IQComputing · via spam | 5★ |
| 0mo | 200,000 | Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk CleanTalk Inc · via spam | 4.8★ |
| 1mo | 200,000 | Simple CAPTCHA with Cloudflare Turnstile Elliot Sowersby / RelyWP · via spam | 4.7★ |
| 3mo | 100,000 | Disable Comments rbplugins · via comments | 3.8★ |
Selected mechanically, not editorially: shipped within 12 months, 1,000+ installs, and 3.5 stars or better where 10+ people rated it. Ranked by install count. Nobody paid to be on this list and there is nothing to pay for.
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