Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

LukasApps CAPTCHA tools for Contact Form 7

Active installs100,000+ rounded
Current authorLukasApps
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release1 month ago 24 Sep 2026
Support1 / 1 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record19
Rating4.1 /5 · 48
Added to directory20 Feb 2015
Requires WP6.2
Requires PHPfalse
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date

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Ownership

Held by LukasApps 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.

AccountReleasesFirstLast
247wd1705 Oct 201804 Aug 2026

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.

Very widely adopted: 100,000+ active installs. In the top tier of the directory by install count.

566 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 22% against the 7 days before. Downloads are counted exactly and without a ceiling, so they show movement the rounded install figure cannot.

11 Sep 2026peak 25,077/day31 Oct 2026
4.1
out of 5
48 ratings
5★3573%
4★24%
3★12%
2★12%
1★919%

Opinion is split: 73% rate it five stars and 19% rate it one. An average alone would not show that.

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.

Field18 Oct19 Oct20 Oct21 Oct22 Oct23 Oct24 Oct25 Oct26 Oct27 Oct28 Oct29 Oct30 Oct31 Oct
Downloads that day—2795926289721,416894473356664691421719639

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (48) · active installs (100,000+) · version (0.2.0) · support threads (1) · threads resolved (1)

91 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 Feb 2015
Requires WP6.2
Requires PHPfalse
Version lagcurrent

Is anyone still maintaining this?

  • Last released 24 Sep 2026, 46 days ago.
  • Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
  • 1 of 1 support threads answered in the last two months.
  • LukasApps publishes no other plugin in the directory, so there is no wider activity to compare against.

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.

  1. 24 Sep 20261 month ago
    Version 0.2.0 released
  2. 03 Sep 20262 months ago
    Version 0.1.9 released
  3. 04 Aug 20263 months ago
    Version 0.1.8 released
  4. 02 Aug 20263 months ago
    First observed by PluginsPediaDaily 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.
  5. 01 Feb 20269 months ago
    Version 0.1.7 released
  6. 04 Jun 202517 months ago
    Version 0.1.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by 247wd.
  7. 19 Jun 20242 years ago
    Version 0.1.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by 247wd.
  8. 07 Mar 20242.5 years ago
    Version 0.1.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by 247wd.
  9. 03 Mar 20242.5 years ago
    Version 0.1.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by 247wd.
  10. 14 Feb 20242.5 years ago
    Version 0.1.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by 247wd.
  11. 22 Jun 20224 years ago
    Version 0.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by 247wd.
  12. 26 Aug 20215 years ago
    Version 0.1.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by 247wd.
  13. 22 Jul 20215 years ago
    Version 0.0.9 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by 247wd.
  14. 15 Sep 20206 years ago
    Version 0.0.8 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by 247wd.
  15. 10 Jul 20206 years ago
    Version 0.0.5 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by 247wd.
  16. 10 Jul 20206 years ago
    Version 0.0.6 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by 247wd.
  17. 10 Jul 20206 years ago
    Version 0.0.7 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by 247wd.
  18. 05 Oct 20188 years ago
    3 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 05 Oct 2018 and 09 Jul 2020. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
  19. 20 Feb 201511 years ago
    Added 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 LukasApps for all 91 days we have observed it.
  • It was last released 1 month ago (24 Sep 2026).
  • Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
  • WordPress.org reports 100,000+ active installs.
  • It carries 48 ratings, averaging 4.1 out of 5.
  • 1 of 1 support threads in the last two months are marked resolved.

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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