Are you looking for WordPress Captcha Plugins?

Using WordPress for your blog gives you better control of your website and makes it easy to manage everything. But it also makes your website vulnerable to spammers. Within a few days of making your website live, you will start seeing spam comments, spam registration, and spam guest posts in your blog. So, I personally advise you not to allow any person to register and submit posts. Similar thing for comment. You will see hundreds of spam comments daily on your blog. Another big problem is the login brute force. Most hackers use this method to crack the password of a WordPress blog. So, you should also keep your login pages secure. In my previous post, I wrote how to keep your blog secure from Brute forcing attacks and also posted a few security plugins for WordPress.

In this post, I am going to write about a different approach to reducing spam on your blog. You can try adding captcha in the different forms on your blog. Although, it is not very helpful in registering spam. But it will surely help you in reducing the comment spam and limit login brute-forcing.

CAPTCHA

CAPTCHA is the short form for “Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart.” It is used to differentiate between humans and computers. Captcha in a form helps in preventing bots from submitting the form.

WordPress has several public forms including login, signup, password reset, and comments. Most of the spammers push spam comments automatically on WordPress-based websites for backlinking. Captcha can help in preventing such attempts.

In this post, I am posting a few nice WordPress Captcha plugins which are available for free. You can use any of these WordPress plugins to add captcha to WordPress Login, Registration, or Comment Forms.

WordPress Captcha Plugins

1. reCAPTCHA

reCAPTCHA is a free WordPress plugin that lets you implement a secure captcha in the form of your WordPress blog. You can add captcha in login, registration, password recovery, and comment forms Most spammers comment on the blog by adding URLs in the URL field and comment content. This plugin will add a captcha to stop bots from filling out forms.

The plugin also gives an option to hide reCaptcha for the whitelisted IP addresses. You can also hide reCaptcha for certain user roles if you want. The plugin also comes with reCaptcha themes to select from. This plugin supports reCaptcha version 2, Version 3, and Invisible reCAPTCHA. You can also add custom code via plugin’s settings page and more. The Captcha plugin is free but there is also a paid version with more features.

I am personally using this plugin on one of my blogs. This is the reason I recommend this to everyone looking for a good captcha plugin.

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2. GeeTest CAPTCHA

GeeTest CAPTCHA is another excellent Captcha plugin to protect your blog from comment spam and Bruteforce attacks. The plugin lets you add captcha on Login pages, registration pages, comment forms, and Gravity Form. The plugin is free but with limited daily requests. You get access to a dashboard to manage everything. The plugin also includes multilingual support. The plugin supports UI customization and CAPTCHA style customization.

First, you need to install the plugin and then obtain the ID and key from the GeeTest website by creating a GeeTest account. Then enter the ID and key in Plugin’s settings page to activate the captcha plugin on your blog.

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3. CAPTCHA 4WP

CAPTCHA 4WP is also a good captcha plugin for WordPress. It protects WordPress blogs from spam comments, fake registrations, and brute-force login attempts. The plugin is easy to use and lets you add captcha to different places on your WordPress blog easily. The captcha plugin can be used to add Captcha to all the forms of WordPress including Login, user registration, and comment form. It is also compatible with Woocommerce and can be used to add Captcha to WooCommerce checkout and registration pages. The plugin also supports BuddyPress and can be used to add captcha to Buddypress forms. It is also compatible with several popular contact form plugins to add Captcha to contact forms.

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4. No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA

This is also a good captcha plugin for WordPress you can download and use. This plugin integrates Google’s reCAPTCHA in WordPress NO CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA is available by Google for your WordPress registration, comments, or lo forms. It also supports the BuddyPress registration form. Like other reCAPTCHA plugins, it also lets you select the theme. You just need to download and activate the plugin in your blog. Then enter Site Key and Secret Key to use reCAPTCHA.

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5. WordPress Captcha Plugin

This is also a powerful WordPress Captcha Plugin to block WordPress Captcha Plugin from WordPress websites. It lets you add different kinds of captchas including Google reCaptcha, math captcha, different text-based captcha, and more. You also get options to make Captcha tricky by adding lines, distortion, and noise.

It adds Captcha on Login Form, Registration Form, Comment Form, and Admin Comment form. The plugin also supports WooCommerce, BuddyPress & Contact Form 7.

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Wrap Up

I personally do not use captcha because most people hate it. Even I also hate filling out a captcha. So, you should try to use some alternate way. If you want to stop registration spam, disable the registration of any user from the WordPress dashboard. For login, security plugins are enough. For comment, try using Disqus or Akismet plugins.

Do you also use captcha in your WordPress blog? What do you do to reduce the spam of your blog? Share your views with us via comments.