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Tudor Constantin
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Gatewarden
Protect WordPress and WooCommerce with CAPTCHA, login limits, categorized audit logs, security alerts, privacy controls, and optional SMTP delivery.
Gatewarden ranks #32,807 among WordPress.org plugins with 10+ active installations, is #1,259 of 3,397 in the Communication category, and was last updated Jul 23, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Tested up to WP 7.0.6 (Current: 7.1.2)
v1.1.1
Current Version v1.1.1
Updated 2 months ago
Last Update on 23 Jul, 2026
Refreshed 12 hours ago
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#1,259 of 3,397 in Communication
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- Version
- 1.1.1
- Last Updated
- Jul 23, 2026
- Requires WP
- 6.5+
- Tested Up To
- 7.0.6
- PHP Version
- 8.0 or higher
- Author
- Tudor Constantin
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Gatewarden
No. CAPTCHA protection, protected forms, login limits, WooCommerce integration, generic account messages, event logging, notifications, SMTP, and uninstall cleanup are disabled by default.
Yes. Login limits have their own activation control and do not require a configured CAPTCHA provider.
When enabled, Gatewarden replaces account-specific login and registration errors with neutral messages. Password-recovery requests for known and unknown accounts use the same public confirmation message, while an email is sent only for a real account. CAPTCHA and lockout errors remain authoritative.
Authentication, CAPTCHA, account, and email events share the same retention, export, search, and dashboard requirements. One append-only, indexed audit schema avoids duplicated maintenance logic and supports cross-category investigation. The administration screen separates the data into native category views so unrelated records do not have to be displayed together.
When event logging and SMTP are enabled, Gatewarden records whether the WordPress mail transaction was accepted or failed, the SMTP host, port, encryption mode, recipient count, recipient domains, attachment count, and a sanitized failure reason. It does not store email bodies, attachment contents or paths, SMTP credentials, or complete recipient addresses.
After a test, Gatewarden displays the latest result for the current administrator on the SMTP tab for seven days. The report includes the exact sanitized mail error, an actionable classification, connection settings, elapsed time, and a bounded SMTP transcript with credentials and AUTH payloads redacted. It does not depend on debug.log.
No. A successful result means the WordPress mail transport accepted the message. Final delivery can still be affected by provider policy, spam filtering, DNS authentication, mailbox rules, or downstream delivery failures. Review the provider delivery logs when a message is accepted but does not arrive.
No. Notification delivery failures are recorded as email events when logging is enabled, but they do not trigger another SMTP-failure notification. Potentially noisy alert types also support a configurable cooldown.
Yes. When GATEWARDEN_DISABLE is strictly true, public CAPTCHA checks and login lockouts are bypassed. Administrative configuration and previously stored event visibility remain available.
No. Existing values are never included in the HTML. They can be retained, explicitly replaced, or deleted.
