Best prevent plugins for WordPress
The most popular prevent plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Prevent Landscape Rotation leads with 1K+ active installs, ahead of Super Light Cache Buster (1K+) and Profile & Dashboard fields [Modify/Disable/Remove] (200+). All 17 plugins tagged “prevent” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 prevent plugins
- 1.
Prevent Landscape RotationThe most installed prevent plugin, with 1K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 7 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 2.
Super Light Cache Buster1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 9 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 3.
Profile & Dashboard fields [Modify/Disable/Remove]200+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 4.
WP Simple SpamCheck100+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
- 5.
Gravity Forms Prevent Duplicates100+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
- 6.
Prevent Purchase for WooCommerce70+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 7.
Prevent All Updates70+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.7.21.
- 8.
No Copy40+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.0.5.
- 9.
Prevent Pages From Deleting40+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.6.23.
- 10.
Spam Prevention for Contact Form 7 and Comments10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 3 weeks ago.
All 17 plugins tagged “prevent”
Prevent Landscape Rotation
Up in the last 7 days:4#5,866by Arul Prasad J1 year ago
Prevent Landscape Rotation On Mobile Website.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.7(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Super Light Cache Buster
Down in the last 7 days:124#6,898by Mwale Kalenga1 year ago
Stop page & browser caching with random version numbers and Cache-Control directives.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Profile & Dashboard fields [Modify/Disable/Remove]
Up in the last 7 days:114#11,572by Puvox Software17 days ago
[ ✅ 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐔𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐒 b𝓎 𝒫𝓊𝓋𝑜𝓍 ] Prevent users from modifying specific Profile & Dashboard fields.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP Simple SpamCheck
Down in the last 7 days:10#13,029by sdesalas14 years ago
This plugin allows WordPress to block over 95% of spam comments using a time-based hash.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Gravity Forms Prevent Duplicates
Down in the last 7 days:15#15,276by termel6 years ago
Simply prevent duplicate submissions by blocking the submit button while submitting
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 4/day
Prevent Purchase for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:415#18,506by Andrew Munro / AffiliateWP1 year ago
Prevents a product from being purchased
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Prevent All Updates
Up in the last 7 days:31#18,594by Sanjay Parmar5 years ago
Disabled the plugins, themes and core updates.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
No Copy
Down in the last 7 days:193#22,488by mohanjith16 years ago
No Copy plugin is a upload and activate plugin which prevents visitors from using the context menu (right click), Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, or Ctrl+X on your bl …
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Prevent Pages From Deleting
Up in the last 7 days:13#22,534by AboZain Albanna6 years ago
A simple, lightweight WordPress plugin To Prevent selected pages from deleting by users
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Spam Prevention for Contact Form 7 and Comments
Up in the last 7 days:437#32,269by ctomczyk21 days ago
Spam Prevention for WP Contact Form 7 (manage multiple contact forms) and WordPress Comments.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Prevent Indexing on Non-Live Sites
Up in the last 7 days:8,813#36,729by Steve North1 year ago
Prevent your WordPress website from being indexed by search engines when it's not on the live site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
Prevent Read More Scroll
#40,893by David Garcia10 years ago
Prevents the page scroll that occurs when clicking in the read more links.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hsoub CAPTCHA
#43,847by web2dev15 years ago
A simple comment captcha protection.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Prevent CSS Cache
Down in the last 7 days:743#47,983by WP Academic7 years ago
License: GPLv2 or later WordPress plugin to prevent caching your stylesheet during development
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
LCS Image Nolink
Down in the last 7 days:12,544#48,279by latcomsystems7 years ago
New images inserted into posts will have no links by default. Existing self-links on all images are removed before the post content is shown.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Comment Fields [Modify/Disable/Remove]
Up in the last 7 days:16,323#56,585by Puvox Software17 days ago
[ ✅ 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐔𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐒 b𝓎 𝒫𝓊𝓋𝑜𝓍 ] Remove fields in comment, like URL or EMAIL
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day