Web-masters used Captcha protection to protect their sites from different kinds of spam and even brute-force attacks. ReCAPTCHA have revolutionized the spam protection since Google released it. This protection mechanism is one of the best and suitable for almost every website. Web-Masters are allowed to put the ReCAPTHA field in any form they want to protect.
As the tag-line of Google ReCAPTCHA says, “Tough on bots, Easy on humans”. Today we’ll look into How to put ReCAPTCHA in WordPress.
Requirements for ReCAPTCHA on WordPress
- GMail Account
- A website with WordPress installed
- Some of your time.
- A healthy, working Mind 😛
Put ReCAPTCHA in WordPress
- First of all you have to login to your WordPress site.
- Click on Plugins and then click “Add New”.
- Search for “Google Captcha (reCAPTCHA) by BestWebSoft” and install the plugins highlighted below.
- Activate this plugin.
- Click on “BWS Plugins” from sidebar and click “Google Captcha”
- Next you have to click here and signup for Google ReCAPTCHA.
- Enter your desired Name in label field (this would not be visible to anyone except you)
- Type the your website’s domain name in domains section. You can input multiple domains, one per line.
- Click Register and your Secret keys are ready.
- Now you have to copy and paste the Site Key and Secret key to Plugin settings.
- You can insert captcha field in the Registration, Password Reset, Login and Comments form of your site.
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