Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
ReCaptcha Integration for WordPress
Active installs9,000+ rounded
Current authorweDevs
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release10 months ago 29 Oct 2025
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record33
Rating4.4 /5 · 94
Added to directory20 Dec 2014
Requires WP3.8
Requires PHP5.4
Version lag0.3 behind
Tested up toWP 6.8.8 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by weDevs throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.
Full observed history, including every field transition
Committing accounts
Read from the plugin’s public release log, so these predate this registry. A committing account is not an owner. Thirty accounts commit to WooCommerce and it has never changed hands.
| Account | Releases | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| podpirate | 27 | 20 Dec 2014 | 09 Mar 2020 |
| tareq1988 | 3 | 06 Jul 2020 | 02 Jun 2022 |
| wedevs | 3 | 28 Oct 2024 | 29 Oct 2025 |
This registry did not observe a transfer; it read these names off a public log. Whether that reflects a change of ownership is not something the directory publishes.
Adoption
How widely the plugin is installed, and what the people running it think of it. WordPress.org rounds install figures to one significant digit, so they describe an order of magnitude rather than a headcount.
Moderately adopted: 9,000+ active installs. A real user base, well short of the ecosystem’s larger plugins.
24 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 16% against the 7 days before. Downloads are counted exactly and without a ceiling, so they show movement the rounded install figure cannot.
08 Aug 2026peak 55/day06 Sep 2026
Daily record
Every field we record, one column per observation. Fields that never moved are named once rather than repeated across every column. A row of identical numbers would be padding.
| Field | 24 Aug | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep | 05 Sep | 06 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 45 | 0 | 33 | 25 | 55 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 45 | 0 | 36 | 33 | 12 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (94) · active installs (9,000+) · version (1.2.8) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
36 days of observation, most recent 14 shown.
Maintenance
When it was last released, and how far its declared compatibility has drifted from current WordPress.
Added to directory11 years ago 20 Dec 2014
Requires WP3.8
Requires PHP5.4
Version lag0.3 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 29 Oct 2025, 313 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.8.8, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 3 releases.
- The same account maintains 22 other plugins, 14 of which were updated in the last 90 days. the account is active.
A plugin that does one thing correctly may need no changes for years; a long gap is not, by itself, evidence of neglect.
History
Everything dated that this registry holds about the plugin, most recent first. Releases carry the author’s own release date; everything else is dated to when it was observed.
Entries marked from the release log predate this registry, and daily observation began 02 Aug 2026. They were read from the plugin’s public SVN history after the fact, not watched as they happened. Everything else was observed directly.
- 02 Aug 20261 month agoFirst observed by PluginPediaDaily snapshots of this plugin’s directory record begin here. Everything above this line is observed; anything before it comes from fields the API itself reports.
- 29 Oct 202510 months agoVersion 1.2.8 released
- 22 Oct 202511 months agoVersion 1.2.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wedevs.
- 28 Oct 202422 months agoVersion 1.2.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by wedevs.
- 02 Jun 20224 years agoVersion 1.2.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by tareq1988.
- 11 Sep 20205.5 years agoVersion 1.2.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by tareq1988.
- 06 Jul 20206 years agoVersion 1.2.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by tareq1988.
- 09 Mar 20206.5 years agoVersion 1.2.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by podpirate.
- 19 Oct 20178.5 years agoVersion 1.2.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by podpirate.
- 19 Oct 20178.5 years agoVersion 1.2.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by podpirate.
- 16 Oct 20178.5 years agoVersion 1.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by podpirate.
- 17 Dec 201510 years agoVersion 1.1.10 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by podpirate.
- 17 Dec 201510 years agoVersion 1.1.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by podpirate.
- 17 Dec 201510 years agoVersion 1.1.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by podpirate.
- 20 Dec 201411 years ago20 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 20 Dec 2014 and 17 Dec 2015. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 20 Dec 201411 years agoAdded to the WordPress.org directoryReported by the plugin API as the date this plugin was added.
What we know, and what we don’t
Everything on this page in one place, including the gaps, so that nothing here is mistaken for a clean bill of health.
What we know
- It has been held by weDevs for all 36 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 10 months ago (29 Oct 2025).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.8.8; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 9,000+ active installs.
- It carries 94 ratings, averaging 4.4 out of 5.
What we don’t know yet
- No forum threads were open in the two months we measure, so how responsive its support is cannot be said. One new thread starts answering that.
Every record on this site, this one included, works under the same limits. We read what WordPress.org publishes about a plugin, never the plugin’s own code, so nothing here says whether a plugin is well built or safe. Install counts reach us already rounded; a change smaller than a band step doesn’t show. We don’t track security advisories yet. For anything older than our first observation we rely on the plugin’s public release log, where one exists. What this registry can and cannot see
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