hCaptcha for WP 4.15.0

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

Page speed impact: 0.053 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version6.8.1
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 70,000+
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=7d836121a9
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.789 s
Memory usage 4.57 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 0.558 s
Memory usage 8.3 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 1.574 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 0.565 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 0.421 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 0.420 s
Memory usage 3.96 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 0.378 s
Memory usage 3.99 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 0.172 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.php0.339 s0.317 s-0.022 s3.51 MiB4.03 MiB+ 534.06 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.198 s0.484 s+0.286 s3.57 MiB4.05 MiB+ 491.71 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.771 s1.009 s+0.238 s6.06 MiB6.55 MiB+ 498.64 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.640 s0.529 s-0.111 s3.52 MiB3.96 MiB+ 448.99 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.215 s0.221 s+0.006 s3.5 MiB3.94 MiB+ 446.52 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.283 s0.593 s+0.310 s3.49 MiB3.94 MiB+ 460.67 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.188 s0.200 s+0.012 s3.5 MiB3.95 MiB+ 459.88 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.610 s0.913 s+0.303 s6.05 MiB6.53 MiB+ 494.2 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.467 s0.327 s-0.140 s3.5 MiB3.94 MiB+ 448.86 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.418 s0.206 s-0.212 s3.52 MiB3.96 MiB+ 442.52 KiB
/0.297 s0.215 s-0.082 s3.5 MiB3.69 MiB+ 198.63 KiB
Average 0.402 s0.456 s+0.053 s3.98 MiB4.41 MiB+ 447.7 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
PHP71.3%18,28711,866183
JavaScript13.2%3,37664554
CSS7.0%1,7991116
SVG6.2%1,591339
PO File2.0%5132372
JSON0.4%9001
HTML0.0%501
Total 25,661 12,762 296

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 17,537
Total complexity 2,798
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 175
Methods 1,153
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-Jun-2025 11:04:19 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 2.0.0 started.
[30-Jun-2025 11:04:19 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 2.0.0 completed.
[30-Jun-2025 11:04:19 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 3.6.0 started.
[30-Jun-2025 11:04:19 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 3.6.0 completed.
[30-Jun-2025 11:04:19 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 4.0.0 started.
[30-Jun-2025 11:04:19 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 4.0.0 completed.
[30-Jun-2025 11:04:19 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 4.6.0 started.
[30-Jun-2025 11:04:19 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 4.6.0 completed.
[30-Jun-2025 11:04:19 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 4.11.0 started.
[30-Jun-2025 11:04:22 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