OpenPorte just crossed 500 active installations on WordPress.org. That’s about five times what we had when I wrote the 100-installs post barely two months ago. Still, that’s just a number. What it tells me is that there are sites that decided to put OpenPorte in front of their contact forms, comments or logins, and that’s a level of trust I know how to appreciate. So thank you to everyone who installed it, to the five of you who left a review, and to those who reported an issue or a rough edge. That’s how it gets better.

It’s worth looking back at where we started. In June the plugin was forked from the open-source project ALTCHA Spam Protection v1.26.3. Four and a half months later, there is no paid tier at all, a security hardening pass and replay protection are in, the settings page health-checks its own configuration, a browser end-to-end test suite runs across the supported form plugins, and 14 languages are fully translated and kept in sync.

There is still plenty to do, and more to share soon.

Made with 💘 in the Ruhr area, Germany.