Honeypot — WordPress Anti-Spam Plugin
WP Armour – Honeypot Anti Spam
by Dnesscarkey · WordPress.org page · Website
Honeypot has 400,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 5,042,141 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on September 3, 2026, tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Honeypot at a glance
Is Honeypot well maintained?
Features
The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.
- Record Spam Submission, view what spam bot are trying to submit
- Logs spam bot IPs
- Block spam bot IPs if multiple spam is submitted. Add extra level of anti spam filter based on IPs. Stops spam bot from using unwanted bandwidth and save…
- Spam Keyword Filter marks form submissions as spam when they contain specified words or phrases
- WooCommerce Checkout & Registration including Card Testing Orders (woocommerce.com)
- Easy Digital Downloads Checkout and Registration (easydigitaldownloads.com)
- QuForm Contact Form (quform.com)
- Ninja Forms (https://ninjaforms.com)
- Gravity Forms (For Ajax Based and Multi Step Forms – gravityforms.com)
- MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress (mc4wp.com)
- S2 Members (s2member.com)
- Ulimate Members (ultimatemember.com)
Honeypot reviews and ratings
1,436 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.
1,436 reviews
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top plugin
top plugin
cadaver -
Life saver
Works really well, no glitches or conflicts with other plugins and seems to do the job!
Notfunny01 -
Effective Anti-Spam Plugin
Simple and Effective Anti-Spam Plugin!
Lensya -
Honey pot WP Armour
I had a really repetitive set of spammers sending messages. As soon as WP Armour was put on my website. The spamming came to an end. This is a really effective plug-in Kind Regards Lorraine Moorhead
loldoll63 -
Works well, happy to recommend
Used to get a fair bit of spam. Not anymore.
gabemcgrath -
Very good
Top - Protects aginst lot of Spam EMails
vandersar
Where Honeypot ranks on WordPress.org
The rankings we track that Honeypot appears in, and how its position changed over 30 days.
| Ranking | WordPress.org placement | Position | 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Anti-Spam Plugins | #4 by tag, #4 in search | #2 | – |
| Best Restaurant Plugins | #37 in search, not tagged | #61 | – |
| Best CAPTCHA Plugins | #45 in search, not tagged | #76 | – |
Honeypot alternatives
Plugins that solve the same problem, ranked by how closely they overlap with Honeypot.
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Antispam Bee 700,000+ installs · 4.8 -
CleanTalk 200,000+ installs · 4.8 -
Titan Anti-spam & Security 50,000+ installs · 4.5 -
Simple CAPTCHA with Cloudflare Turnstile 200,000+ installs · 4.7 -
CF7 Apps 300,000+ installs · 3.8
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Honeypot Details
Fastest growing Anti Spam plugin. No API calls, subscriptions, captcha or puzzle. Full GDPR complaint. For comments, contact form, login, registration
The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.
Tags
- akismet
- anti-spam
- comment spam
- contact form spam
- spam protection
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- Version
- 2.4.02
- Last updated
- Sep 3, 2026
- First published
- Jun 16, 2020
- Requires WordPress
- 5.0
- Tested up to
- 7.1
- Requires PHP
- –
- Pricing
- Free on WordPress.org
Honeypot FAQ
What does Honeypot do?
According to its WordPress.org readme, Honeypot offers Record Spam Submission, view what spam bot are trying to submit, Logs spam bot IPs, Block spam bot IPs if multiple spam is submitted. Add extra level of anti spam filter based on IPs. Stops spam bot from using unwanted bandwidth and save, Spam Keyword Filter marks form submissions as spam when they contain specified words or phrases and WooCommerce Checkout & Registration including Card Testing Orders (woocommerce.com).
How many active installs does Honeypot have?
WordPress.org reports 400,000+ active installs for Honeypot as of September 7, 2026.
Is Honeypot still maintained?
Yes. The last release was on September 3, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Does Honeypot have good support?
On the WordPress.org forum, 0 of 7 recent support threads for Honeypot are marked resolved. That is the developer's free support; a paid version usually comes with its own channel.
Is Honeypot free?
Honeypot is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.
Where does Honeypot rank among Anti-Spam Plugins?
Honeypot is #2 in the WordPress.org "spam" ranking as of today.