Setting up Google reCAPTCHA

Do you want to stop spam bots from filling out your form? You can add Google reCAPTCHA to your WordPress forms to protects against spam and other types of automated abuse.

A CAPTCHA is a test to tell human and bots apart. It is easy for humans to solve, and pretty difficult for bots and other malicious software to figure out. By adding reCAPTCHA to your site, you can block automated software while letting in legit users access to your WordPress membership site.

To protect login, registration, password reset and edit profile forms against spam and abuse using the Google reCAPTCHA, see the guide below.

V3 verifies if an interaction is legitimate without any user interaction. It will never display a captcha like version 2, rather users will only see a badge at the lower right corner of the screen.

Activating the Addon

To activate the Google reCAPTCHA addon, go to ProfilePress>>Addons>> Scroll to Google reCAPTCHA and switch it ON

Setting up Google reCAPTCHA

Firstly, you need to grab a reCAPTCHA site and secret key for your website domain. Get them here.

NB: Make sure you add your domain under the domains section

reCAPTCHA Settings

Head over to ProfilePress>>Settings>>reCAPTCHA and follow these steps.

• Select reCAPTCHA type.
• Paste your Site and Secret keys.
• Set the score threshold. The score at which users will fail reCAPTCHA v3 verification. Scores can range from 0.0 (very likely a bot) to 1.0 (very likely a human). Default is 0.5
• Set the error message. The message or text to display when CAPTCHA is ignored or the challenge is failed.

Adding reCAPTCHA to your forms

To add reCAPTCHA to your login, registration and password reset forms, click on the form title to open up the form builder.

If using the Drag-and-drop builder, add the reCAPTCHA block to the form.

If using the shortcode builder, add the reCAPTCHA shortcode to the form.

La fin!