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Bot Protection with Turnstile

A lightweight plugin that protects core WordPress forms and selected third‑party plugins from spam and bot attacks using Cloudflare Turnstile CAPTCHA.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version1.1.4
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 6.5 · PHP 7.4
Directory statusactive
Last directory update17 Aug 20262mo ago
Active installations200Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org ratingNo WordPress.org ratings yet
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Bot Protection with Turnstile version 1.1.4 as active, updated 2mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

Bot Protection with Turnstile lets you drop-in Cloudflare’s privacy-focused, no-CAPTCHA challenge on the most common attack surfaces of a WordPress site:

  • Core WordPress forms – Login, registration, password reset, and comment forms.
  • WooCommerce – Protect checkout, login, registration, and password reset forms.
  • bbPress – Secure forum registration, login, and topic creation forms.
  • Contact Form 7 – Add Turnstile to your CF7 forms to block spam submissions.
  • Accept Stripe Payments – Protect checkout and payment pop-up forms.
  • Simple Download Monitor – Secure download buttons and squeeze forms.
  • Simple Shopping Cart – Add Turnstile to your shopping cart plugin’s manual checkout forms.
  • WP Express Checkout – Protect checkout 100% discount checkout forms with Turnstile.
  • WP eMember – Secure registration, login and password reset forms with Turnstile.

Just add your Turnstile Site Key and Secret Key, choose the forms you want to protect, and you’re done. No more subjecting your users to image puzzles or accessibility headaches.

Turnstile can generate multiple types of non-intrusive challenges to verify users are human, all without showing visitors a puzzle.

Highlights

  • Zero-friction, user-friendly bot protection.
  • A free reCAPTCHA alternative for WordPress.
  • Works even when visitors are behind ad-blockers or privacy extensions.
  • Granular toggles to enable/disable on individual forms.
  • Debug logging feature.
  • Fully translatable and developer-friendly with action/filter hooks.
  • Road-map for upcoming integrations with other popular plugins.

Getting Started

It’s quick and easy to get started with the Bot Protection plugin.

  • Generate a Site Key and Secret Key in your Cloudflare account, then enter them in the plugin’s settings page.
  • Choose which forms you want to protect with Turnstile and click Save.
  • Turnstile challenges will automatically appear on the selected forms to to block bots and spam.

For more detailed instructions, please see our setup guide.

External Services

This plugin integrates with the Cloudflare Turnstile CAPTCHA service to help protect WordPress forms from spam and automated abuse.

When a protected form (such as login, registration, or comment) is displayed, the plugin connects to Cloudflare Turnstile to generate a CAPTCHA challenge. When the form is submitted, Turnstile receives the user’s IP address and browser metadata to verify whether the submission is from a human or bot.

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com/terms/

com/privacypolicy/

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Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • spam protection
  • captcha
  • cloudflare
  • security
  • turnstile
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.5 · PHP 7.4
Update activity17 Aug 20262mo ago

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