reCaptcha by BestWebSoft 1.84

Does reCaptcha by BestWebSoft work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
6PHP deprecation warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 75.9 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 version6.9
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 100,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-captcha/
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Pages 5

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=google-captcha%2Fgoogle-captcha.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=203252df88
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.532 s
Memory usage 4.37 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

reCaptcha

Page screenshot: reCaptcha
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=google-captcha.php
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.162 s
Memory usage 4.03 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

reCaptcha → Allow List

Page screenshot: reCaptcha → Allow List
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=google-captcha-allowlist.php
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.325 s
Memory usage 3.95 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

reCaptcha → BWS Panel

Page screenshot: reCaptcha → BWS Panel
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=gglcptch-bws-panel
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.293 s
Memory usage 3.78 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 0.286 s
Memory usage 4.18 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.411 s0.418 s+0.007 s3.78 MiB3.85 MiB+ 76.91 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.345 s0.294 s-0.051 s3.78 MiB3.86 MiB+ 79.27 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.826 s0.852 s+0.026 s6.31 MiB6.4 MiB+ 99.6 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.628 s0.456 s-0.172 s3.74 MiB3.8 MiB+ 63.77 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.314 s0.465 s+0.151 s3.71 MiB3.78 MiB+ 67.14 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.478 s0.424 s-0.054 s3.7 MiB3.78 MiB+ 75.34 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.342 s0.307 s-0.035 s3.72 MiB3.8 MiB+ 85.66 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.814 s0.702 s-0.112 s6.3 MiB6.39 MiB+ 93.98 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.384 s0.430 s+0.046 s3.71 MiB3.78 MiB+ 63.33 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.319 s0.470 s+0.151 s3.73 MiB3.8 MiB+ 63.14 KiB
/0.251 s0.205 s-0.046 s4.12 MiB4.18 MiB+ 66.76 KiB
Average 0.465 s0.457 s-0.008 s4.24 MiB4.31 MiB+ 75.9 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.

PO File
PHP
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PO File63.6%16,66220,12023
PHP26.2%6,8661,11913
CSS6.0%1,582668
JavaScript3.6%9381408
SVG0.6%16704
Total 26,215 21,445 56

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 6,727
Total complexity 1,418
Median class complexity 86.0
Median method complexity 5.0
Most complex class Bws_Settings_Tabs
Most complex function bws_add_menu_render()
Classes 4
Methods 42
Functions 121

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 2

PHP Error Log 6 lines

[03-Dec-2025 00:16:13 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 00:16:13 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 00:16:22 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 00:16:22 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 00:16:41 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 00:16:41 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide reCaptcha by BestWebSoft Admin Menus