BuddyPress Security Check is a WordPress app, with a 4.1 average rating from 14 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
BuddyPress Security Check is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Shea Bunge. With a rating of 4.1★ from 14 reviews.
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BuddyPress Security Check is a well-rated WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 14 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +Published by Shea Bunge — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (14) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How BuddyPress Security Check works
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Important: Since version 2.0, this plugin now requires at least PHP 5.3. Please ensure you are running the latest available version of PHP on your server.
This plugin adds Google’s reCAPTCHA to the BuddyPress registration page and WordPress login page to prevent bots from registering and keep your site free from spam registrations.
reCAPTCHA is “tough on bots, easy on humans”: while it is increbianle effective on preventing bots from registering, most of the time all the user needs to do to verify themselves is simply check a box.
After installing this plugin, you will need to register your site with Google (requires a Google account) and enter the site key and secret key on the Settings > BuddyPress > Options admin menu. If you would prefer not to use Google’s service, there is an alternative security check method also available; see below;
Prior to version 2.0, a less effective security check method was used where the user needed to answer simple math sum before registering. This method is still available, and can be turned on on the Settings > BuddyPress > Options menu.
You can learn more at the plugin’s website, or on GitHub
Translations
Thanks to the awesome work of the following translators, this plugin can be used in these languages:
Indonesian thanks to Jordan Silaen from ChameleonJohn.com
Russian thanks to Howard Steele from SuperbWebsiteBuilders.com
Swedish thanks to Thord D. Hedengren
French thanks to Frédérick Baldo
Serbo-Croatian thanks to Andrijana Nikolic from WebHostingGeeks and Ogi Djuraskovic from FirstSiteGuide.com
Spanish thanks to Renato Alves
Hungarian thanks to Laszlo Espadas
Brazilian Portuguese thanks to Renato Alves
Danish thanks to Andreas Bjørn Hassing Nielsen
Italian thanks to Nicole Curioni
Belarusian thanks to Natasha from uStarCash
If you have a translation to contribute, please sent it through to me by email or on GitHub.
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Frequently asked questions
What is BuddyPress Security Check?
BuddyPress Security Check is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.1-star rating from 14 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Shea Bunge.