Report - hCaptcha for WP 3.8.0

Does hCaptcha for WordPress work with WordPress 6.4.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2024-01-24 14:44:44 UTC.

Summary

Errors

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

Performance

Memory usage: 179.26 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	6.4.2
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=72adb6a9e0
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.518 s
Memory usage	3.74 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	0.331 s
Memory usage	3.75 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.240 s
Memory usage	3.48 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.597 s	0.363 s	-0.234 s	3.38 MiB	3.57 MiB	+ 192.33 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.258 s	0.244 s	-0.014 s	3.41 MiB	3.59 MiB	+ 191.23 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.966 s	1.071 s	+0.105 s	5.46 MiB	5.65 MiB	+ 196.88 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.687 s	0.726 s	+0.039 s	3.32 MiB	3.49 MiB	+ 175.34 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.257 s	0.251 s	-0.006 s	3.32 MiB	3.48 MiB	+ 168.19 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.338 s	0.316 s	-0.022 s	3.29 MiB	3.48 MiB	+ 186.43 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.237 s	0.220 s	-0.017 s	3.31 MiB	3.5 MiB	+ 192.34 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.018 s	0.776 s	-0.242 s	5.45 MiB	5.64 MiB	+ 192.47 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.358 s	0.311 s	-0.047 s	3.3 MiB	3.48 MiB	+ 177.34 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.288 s	0.478 s	+0.190 s	3.34 MiB	3.51 MiB	+ 174.97 KiB
/	0.303 s	0.268 s	-0.035 s	3.36 MiB	3.48 MiB	+ 124.39 KiB
Average	0.482 s	0.457 s	-0.026 s	3.72 MiB	3.9 MiB	+ 179.26 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
	PHP	77.9%	11,608	8,216	135
	JavaScript	10.1%	1,507	233	34
	CSS	5.8%	857	7	10
	PO File	3.4%	513	237	2
	SVG	2.7%	403	2	12
	HTML	0.0%	5	0	1
Total			14,893	8,695	194

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	11,741
Total complexity	1,747
Median class complexity	7.0
Median method complexity	1.0
Most complex class	KAGG\Settings\Abstracts\SettingsBase
Most complex function	HCaptcha\Main::load_modules()

Classes	130
Methods	768
Functions	14

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 4 lines

[24-Jan-2024 14:45:13 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 2.0.0 started.
[24-Jan-2024 14:45:13 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 2.0.0 completed.
[24-Jan-2024 14:45:13 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 3.6.0 started.
[24-Jan-2024 14:45:13 UTC] hCaptcha Plugin:  Migration of hCaptcha Plugin to 3.6.0 completed.

hCaptcha for WP 3.8.0