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mikestecker/craft-guest-entries-honeypot
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Add a honeypot captcha to your Craft CMS guest entries form

1.0.0(7y ago)21.9k[1 issues](https://github.com/mikestecker/craft-guest-entries-honeypot/issues)[1 PRs](https://github.com/mikestecker/craft-guest-entries-honeypot/pulls)MITPHP

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Guest Entries Honeypot plugin for Craft
=======================================

[](#guest-entries-honeypot-plugin-for-craft)

This plugin allows you to add a [honeypot captcha](http://haacked.com/archive/2007/09/11/honeypot-captcha.aspx/) to your Craft CMS guest entry form.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

This plugin requires Craft CMS 3.0.0 or later, and the [Guest Entries](https://github.com/craftcms/guest-entries) plugin.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

You can install this plugin from the Plugin Store or with Composer.

#### From the Plugin Store

[](#from-the-plugin-store)

Go to the Plugin Store in your project’s Control Panel and search for “Guest Entries Honeypot”. Then click on the “Install” button in its modal window.

#### With Composer

[](#with-composer)

Open your terminal and run the following commands:

```
# go to the project directory
cd /path/to/my-project.test

# tell Composer to load the plugin
composer require mikestecker/craft-guest-entries-honeypot

# tell Craft to install the plugin
./craft install/plugin guest-entries-honeypot
```

Setup
-----

[](#setup)

To configure the plugin, go to Settings → Guest Entries Honeypot, and choose a param name that your honeypot field should have.

Then edit your entry form template(s), and add the honeypot field.

```

```

You can hide the field with CSS:

```
input#secretHoneypotParamName { display: none; }
```

###  Health Score

27

↓

LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance10

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity18

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 81% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

2700d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ab6d55f16a3cd45b28057a9a4c838a4f25ef57ee9933307b2351e95cbd688ae9?d=identicon)[mikestecker](/maintainers/mikestecker)

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Top Contributors

[![brandonkelly](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/47792?v=4)](https://github.com/brandonkelly "brandonkelly (17 commits)")[![mikestecker](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/407465?v=4)](https://github.com/mikestecker "mikestecker (2 commits)")[![benjamindavid](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2911900?v=4)](https://github.com/benjamindavid "benjamindavid (1 commits)")[![Radabaugh](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/22623466?v=4)](https://github.com/Radabaugh "Radabaugh (1 commits)")

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Tags

cmsyii2formcraftcmsHoneypotguest

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