Contact Form 7 Text CAPTCHA

38 Quality Score

Active Installs

14/30

With only 1,000 active installs, this is a niche plugin with a small user base relative to mainstream spam tools that ship on hundreds of thousands of sites.

Update Freshness

4/25

It was last updated on December 21, 2024 and is tested against WordPress 6.7.5, so it is reasonably current, though the lack of an explicit PHP version requirement leaves some uncertainty about host compatibility.

User Rating

5/15

A 90 out of 100 score from just two ratings is a thin signal and does not give a reliable picture of real-world satisfaction.

Support Health

8/15

Zero support threads opened and zero resolved means there is no public track record of the developer responding to user issues, which is a meaningful concern for a security-adjacent plugin.

WP Compatibility

8/15

It declares compatibility with WordPress 6.0.2 and is tested up to 6.7.5, but it is tightly scoped to Contact Form 7 and will not help users on WPForms, Formidable, Elementor forms, or similar builders.

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About

Secure your website Contact Form 7 forms from bots and hackers using plugin Contact Form 7 Text CAPTCHA. Just place shortcode [captchacf7* input-captc …

Active Installs 1k+

Rating ★★★★½ 4.5/5

Last Updated 2024-12-21 11:20am GMT

Requires WordPress 6.0.2+

Tested Up To 6.7.7

✓ No known vulnerabilities

What It Does

Contact Form 7 Text CAPTCHA adds a text-based challenge question to forms built with the Contact Form 7 plugin, requiring visitors to type the correct answer before a submission is accepted. The shortcode [captchacf7* input-captc] is placed inside a CF7 form template to render the captcha field. It is intended as a lightweight, image-free alternative to reCAPTCHA or hCaptcha for blocking automated bot submissions.

Who It's For

This plugin is a reasonable fit for small site owners running Contact Form 7 who want a simple, dependency-free captcha on a single form and are comfortable with very limited support options. It works for low-traffic contact pages, local business inquiry forms, and simple lead capture setups where bot volume is modest and a free text question is enough friction.

Who Should Skip It

Sites with high spam volume, multi-page forms, or non-CF7 form builders should skip this plugin, since the underlying protection is a static text question that sophisticated bots can scrape and bypass. Anyone needing accessible, image-based, or behavioural bot detection should look at a more established alternative instead.

The Bottom Line

Contact Form 7 Text CAPTCHA is a narrowly scoped, low-install plugin with a decent recent update but no demonstrated support history and an overall quality score of 41.08 out of 100. For most site owners the established alternatives listed above will deliver stronger bot protection with better long-term support. Use this only if you specifically need a CF7-only text captcha and accept the risk of a solo-maintainer project.

Pick CleanTalk if you want a managed spam firewall that covers comments, registrations, and forms site-wide rather than a single captcha field on a CF7 form.

hCaptcha for WP 91/100

Choose hCaptcha if you want a privacy-friendly image challenge that works across many form plugins, not just Contact Form 7.

Simple CAPTCHA with Cloudflare Turnstile 90/100

Go with Turnstile if you prefer invisible or low-friction challenges backed by a major infrastructure provider rather than a static text question.

CF7 Apps – Honeypot, Database, Redirection, Webhook, and Addons for Contact Form 7 90/100

Pick the CF7 Honeypot addon if you want a no-interaction bot trap plus a bundle of other CF7 utilities, which is often more effective and less annoying than a text captcha.

Disable Comments – Remove Comments & Stop Spam 88/100

Choose Disable Comments only if your problem is comment-section spam rather than form spam, since it does not protect CF7 submissions.