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WordPress Plugins Usage Report: What Admins Actually Open, August 2026
TL;DR: Install counts tell you what is downloaded, not what is used. We looked at 36,207 WordPress admin page views collected over seven days across sites running our Security plugin, and counted which plugin screens administrators actually opened. The ranking looks nothing like the install charts: WP All Import, a plugin with 100,000 installs, accounts…
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Email Obfuscation in 2026: How to Protect Email and Phone from Bots
Email obfuscation is the practice of hiding an email address (or a phone number) on a web page so that automated bots cannot read it, while real visitors still see it and can click it. If you have ever published a contact address on a website and watched your inbox fill with spam a few…
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Free access is going to be discontinued
After offering the Level 0 tier for Block Lists with free access, we decided to close this tier effective July 26, 2026. What is the reason? We failed to maintain or improve the economics of this product under the freemium model. So, we are returning to the premium model, where Level 1 is the first…
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Email Subscribers Spam Protection for WordPress
TL;DR: To stop spam in Email Subscribers, combine [its built-in protection] with a cloud anti-spam filter. CleanTalk Anti-Spam checks every Email Subscribers submission in the background and blocks spam bots invisibly – no CAPTCHA, no puzzles, no checkboxes – while protecting registrations, comments and WooCommerce on the same site. reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha and Turnstile add a…
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A New Way to Choose Safe WordPress Plugins
We have an important update to share. The newly released version 2.184 of our Security Plugin for WordPress includes a major new feature the Security Certified tab. This tab shows plugin releases certified by CleanTalk’s security team. We have reviewed these releases for vulnerabilities such as XSS, SQL injection, and backdoors. The full list of…
