Report - hCaptcha for WP 3.0.0

Does hCaptcha for WordPress work with WordPress 6.2.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2023-08-03 06:23:30 UTC.

Summary

Errors

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

Performance

Memory usage: 141.33 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 version	6.2.2
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2026-02-08T07:52:00+00:00
Active installs	70,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/hcaptcha-for-forms-and-more/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 3

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=38cb9a2ddc
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.232 s
Memory usage	3.23 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Settings → hCaptcha

URL	/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=hcaptcha
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.195 s
Memory usage	3.25 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.207 s
Memory usage	3.17 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.255 s	0.227 s	-0.028 s	3.07 MiB	3.21 MiB	+ 143.59 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.159 s	0.167 s	+0.008 s	3.1 MiB	3.24 MiB	+ 142.96 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.682 s	0.567 s	-0.115 s	5.02 MiB	5.17 MiB	+ 147.95 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.645 s	0.546 s	-0.099 s	3.02 MiB	3.14 MiB	+ 126.18 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.151 s	0.146 s	-0.005 s	3.01 MiB	3.12 MiB	+ 112.94 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.234 s	0.187 s	-0.047 s	2.99 MiB	3.13 MiB	+ 137.63 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.162 s	0.160 s	-0.002 s	3.01 MiB	3.15 MiB	+ 143.54 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.539 s	0.515 s	-0.024 s	5.01 MiB	5.15 MiB	+ 143.54 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.213 s	0.224 s	+0.011 s	3 MiB	3.12 MiB	+ 126.67 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.222 s	0.193 s	-0.029 s	3.03 MiB	3.15 MiB	+ 126.17 KiB
/	0.321 s	0.200 s	-0.121 s	2.97 MiB	3.17 MiB	+ 203.51 KiB
Average	0.326 s	0.285 s	-0.041 s	3.38 MiB	3.52 MiB	+ 141.33 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

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	84.8%	7,380	5,079	98
	JavaScript	7.1%	616	85	17
	CSS	5.4%	472	5	4
	PO File	1.6%	140	52	1
	SVG	1.0%	91	2	7
	HTML	0.1%	5	0	1
Total			8,704	5,223	128

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	7,400
Total complexity	1,107
Median class complexity	7.0
Median method complexity	1.0
Most complex class	HCaptcha\Settings\Abstracts\SettingsBase
Most complex function	HCaptcha\Main::load_modules()

Classes	94
Methods	495
Functions	15

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.

Options `wp_options` 2

hcaptcha_settings
hcaptcha_versions

PHP Error Log 2 lines

[03-Aug-2023 06:23:44 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 2.0.0 started.
[03-Aug-2023 06:23:44 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 2.0.0 completed.

hCaptcha for WP 3.0.0