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Gatekeep – Universal CAPTCHA & Anti-Spam for All Forms & Comments

Name: Gatekeep – Universal CAPTCHA & Anti-Spam for All Forms & Comments
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)
Author: gatekeepwp

Invisible CAPTCHA and honeypot anti-spam for Contact Form 7, WPForms, Elementor, WooCommerce and comments. Real visitors never solve a puzzle.

Gatekeep ranks #25,248 among WordPress.org plugins with 20+ active installations, is #1,582 of 5,058 in the Security category, a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews, and was last updated Oct 9, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1.4

v1.2 Current Version v1.2

Updated 4 weeks ago Last Update on 09 Oct, 2026

Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on

#1,582 of 5,058 in Security Top 50% by installs Actively maintained

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.2
Last Updated: Oct 09, 2026
Requires WP: 5.8+
Tested Up To: 7.1.4
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: gatekeepwp

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Gatekeep – Universal CAPTCHA & Anti-Spam for All Forms & Comments

There is a Compatibility screen that answers this directly. It lists every form plugin and builder it found, names any captcha your plugins already have switched on, names any other anti-spam plugin that is running, and says whether anything actually conflicts. If your form plugin already has reCAPTCHA, Gatekeep will not add a second challenge to those forms. If another anti-spam plugin is active, both can run - and the screen suggests leaving Monitor Mode on for the first couple of days, so you can see whether the two ever disagree before either blocks anything.

Not while Monitor Mode is on, and that is the default. Rate limiting is also skipped at WooCommerce checkout so shared IP addresses cannot lock out a sale.

The default configuration adds no JavaScript and makes no external requests. Assets load only on pages where a protected form is actually rendered.

The honeypot is hidden from assistive technology and removed from the tab order. The default configuration presents no visual puzzle at all.

Install Gatekeep and click Protect my website. CF7 is one of the 33 built-in integrations - including its AJAX submission path, which honeypot-only plugins often miss. No markup changes, no keys.

Activate Gatekeep and your CF7 forms are already protected - no shortcode, no [recaptcha] tag, no keys. To show a visible CAPTCHA as well, go to Gatekeep > Captcha and pick maths, image, checkbox or slide-to-confirm - or reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha or Turnstile with your own keys. It appears just above the Send button on every Contact Form 7 form.

Yes: Elementor Pro forms, Divi 4 and 5, Bricks, Avada, Thrive, WPBakery, Oxygen, Beaver Builder and SeedProd are covered, plus a universal guard for anything unusual.

Yes, with a dedicated shop profile: nothing visible in front of a buyer, tolerance for password-manager-speed submissions, and rate limits that a busy shop will not trip.

Decisions are made on your own server and nothing is sent to a third party. Visitor IP addresses are stored hashed, and the default configuration sets no cookies and loads no external scripts.

For form, registration, login and checkout protection, yes. For classifying comment text specifically, Akismet's twenty years of data remain excellent - many sites run both, and Gatekeep will happily coexist and show you the overlap.