hCaptcha for WP 4.13.0

Does hCaptcha for WP work with WordPress 6.8.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
10Unrecognized messages in the PHP error log
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 446.95 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: insignificant.
The plugin didn't make the site noticeably slower.

Environment
WordPress version6.8.1
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 60,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/hcaptcha-for-forms-and-more/
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Pages 8

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=hcaptcha-for-forms-and-more%2Fhcaptcha.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=dbc257bf2e
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.907 s
Memory usage 4.56 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

hCaptcha

Page screenshot: hCaptcha
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=hcaptcha
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.474 s
Memory usage 8.29 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

hCaptcha → Integrations

Page screenshot: hCaptcha → Integrations
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=hcaptcha-integrations
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.353 s
Memory usage 4.09 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

hCaptcha → Forms

Page screenshot: hCaptcha → Forms
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=hcaptcha-forms
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.394 s
Memory usage 3.96 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

hCaptcha → Events

Page screenshot: hCaptcha → Events
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=hcaptcha-events
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.477 s
Memory usage 3.96 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

hCaptcha → System Info

Page screenshot: hCaptcha → System Info
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=hcaptcha-systeminfo
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.511 s
Memory usage 3.95 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Tools → Scheduled Actions

Page screenshot: Tools → Scheduled Actions
URL /wp-admin/tools.php?page=action-scheduler
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.318 s
Memory usage 3.98 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Page screenshot: Test site – Just another WordPress site
URL /
Aspect front-page
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.228 s
Memory usage 3.69 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.325 s0.287 s-0.038 s3.51 MiB4.02 MiB+ 527.45 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.191 s0.208 s+0.017 s3.57 MiB4.04 MiB+ 479.14 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.752 s0.640 s-0.112 s6.06 MiB6.54 MiB+ 492.95 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.578 s0.505 s-0.073 s3.52 MiB3.96 MiB+ 442.5 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.192 s0.188 s-0.004 s3.5 MiB3.93 MiB+ 439.91 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.257 s0.268 s+0.011 s3.49 MiB3.94 MiB+ 454.06 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.174 s0.193 s+0.019 s3.5 MiB3.95 MiB+ 453.27 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.603 s0.611 s+0.008 s6.05 MiB6.53 MiB+ 487.59 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.333 s0.246 s-0.087 s3.5 MiB3.94 MiB+ 442.37 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.187 s0.191 s+0.004 s3.52 MiB3.95 MiB+ 435.91 KiB
/0.305 s0.187 s-0.118 s3.43 MiB3.69 MiB+ 261.3 KiB
Average 0.354 s0.320 s-0.034 s3.97 MiB4.41 MiB+ 446.95 KiB

Code Statistics

Note: Third-party libraries and minified JS/CSS files are excluded from these statistics where possible, so the numbers you see here may be lower than those reported by other tools.

PHP
JavaScript
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP71.2%17,32511,210176
JavaScript12.9%3,13857753
CSS7.0%1,6991016
SVG6.4%1,555336
PO File2.1%5132372
JSON0.4%8801
HTML0.0%501
Total 24,323 12,037 285

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 16,681
Total complexity 2,580
Median class complexity 8.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class KAGG\Settings\Abstracts\SettingsBase
Most complex function HCaptcha\Main::load_modules()
Classes 168
Methods 1,084
Functions 16

Additions

Things that the plugin adds to the site. This section is not intended to be comprehensive. The test tool only looks for a few specific types of added content.

Database Tables 1

Options wp_options 3

Custom Post Types 1

ID Name
scheduled-actionScheduled Actions

PHP Error Log 10 lines

[30-Apr-2025 23:18:04 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 2.0.0 started.
[30-Apr-2025 23:18:04 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 2.0.0 completed.
[30-Apr-2025 23:18:04 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 3.6.0 started.
[30-Apr-2025 23:18:04 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 3.6.0 completed.
[30-Apr-2025 23:18:04 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 4.0.0 started.
[30-Apr-2025 23:18:04 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 4.0.0 completed.
[30-Apr-2025 23:18:04 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 4.6.0 started.
[30-Apr-2025 23:18:04 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 4.6.0 completed.
[30-Apr-2025 23:18:04 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 4.11.0 started.
[30-Apr-2025 23:18:07 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 4.11.0 completed.
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide hCaptcha for WP Admin Menus