{"id":219,"date":"2020-02-12T10:37:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T10:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/support\/knowledge-base\/how-to-add-a-recaptcha-to-your-wordpress-website\/"},"modified":"2020-02-12T10:37:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T10:37:04","slug":"how-to-add-a-recaptcha-to-your-wordpress-website","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.lcn.com\/support\/articles\/how-to-add-a-recaptcha-to-your-wordpress-website\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add a reCAPTCHA to your WordPress website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This guide will help LCN customers with a WordPress site secure their contact forms, comment sections and other areas of their site with a Google reCAPTCHA to help protect your site from spam and bot abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s get started\u2026<\/p>\n<h3>How to register a site for a reCAPTCHA<\/h3>\n<p>Before you start you will first need to set up your site with Google to be able to use a Google reCAPTCHA. You can do this using a Google account and logging into your admin console. You can do this from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/intro\/v3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once logged in you can now register your site with Google with the following steps:<\/p>\n<ol class=\"step_by_step\">\n<li>Enter a <strong>Label<\/strong> to help identify the site in the future.<\/li>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"screenshot\" src=\"\/support\/articles\/attachment\/864\/inline\/original\/1568119556\/Label.JPG\" height=\"50%\" width=\"50%\"> <\/p>\n<li>Choose the type of reCAPTCHA you wish to use. You can find out more about the different options <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/recaptcha\/docs\/versions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"screenshot\" src=\"\/support\/articles\/attachment\/865\/inline\/original\/1568119597\/Type.JPG\" height=\"50%\" width=\"50%\"> <\/p>\n<li>Under the <strong>Domains<\/strong> section enter your domain name.<\/li>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"screenshot\" src=\"\/support\/articles\/attachment\/866\/inline\/original\/1568119664\/Domains.JPG\" height=\"50%\" width=\"50%\"> <\/p>\n<li>Under the <strong>Owners<\/strong> section choose the emails of the owners of your site. Your Gmail will already be listed but you can add further emails below it.<\/li>\n<li>Click to <strong>Accept the reCAPTCHA Terms of Service<\/strong> and choose if you would like to <strong>Send alerts to owners<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>SUBMIT<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"screenshot\" src=\"\/support\/articles\/attachment\/867\/inline\/original\/1568119729\/Owners_TCs_Submit.JPG\" height=\"50%\" width=\"50%\"> <\/p>\n<li>You will now be presented with a <strong>SITE KEY<\/strong> and <strong>SECRET KEY<\/strong>; you will need these to now activate your captcha on your site. Don\u2019t worry if you close the page, you can get the keys again from the settings page.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Adding your reCAPTCHA to your WordPress site<\/h3>\n<p>Now you have your Google reCAPTCHA you can now add it to your site.<\/p>\n<p>Have a look at your current plugins for contact forms, sign up or comment sections and check to see if they have the option to integrate a reCAPTCHA. If they do all you should need is your <strong>Site Key<\/strong> and <strong>Secret Key<\/strong> to enable your reCAPTCHA and make it show on your site.<\/p>\n<p>If you do not have plugins that integrate reCAPTCHA you will need to use a plugin specifically for this. There are many different options so feel free to research and use the one you feel is best for you.<\/p>\n<p>For the rest of this guide, we will show you how to use <a href=\"https:\/\/en-gb.wordpress.org\/plugins\/google-captcha\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Captcha (reCAPTCHA) by BestWebSoft<\/a> to add your reCAPTCHA to your WordPress site.<\/p>\n<h3>Setting up your reCAPTCHA<\/h3>\n<ol class=\"step_by_step\">\n<li>Head to your website and get yourself logged in to your WordPress Dashboard. You can do this by visiting <i>mydomain.co.uk\/wp-admin<\/i> replacing <i>mydomain.co.uk<\/i> with your domain name.<\/li>\n<li>Once logged in float your mouse over <strong>Plugins<\/strong> within the left-hand panel and click <strong>Add New<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Search for <strong>Google Captcha (reCAPTCHA)<\/strong> and click <strong>Install Now<\/strong> for <strong>Google Captcha (reCAPTCHA) by BestWebSoft<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Once installed click <strong>Activate<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Under <strong>Authentication<\/strong>, you can now add your <strong>Site Key<\/strong> and <strong>Secret Key<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Under <strong>General<\/strong> choose which version of <strong>reCAPTCHA<\/strong> you have.<\/li>\n<li>Choose where you would like to enable your reCAPTCHA from <strong>Enable reCAPTCHA for<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"container row col-md-24 support-article panel panel-default panel-body\" style=\"background-color: #f6e9db;border-color: #ead9c7;border: 1px solid #ddd;border-radius: 4px;padding: 1% 2%; background-image: url(\/images\/my_account\/highlight.png); background-position: left top; background-repeat: repeat-x;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px\"><strong style=\"color: #e77600 !important; font-size: 18px;\">Please Note<\/strong>: Some features require upgrading to Pro; this should not be needed to secure most areas of your site.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<li>Scroll down to <strong>Hide reCAPTCHA for<\/strong> and choose which members of your site will not see the reCAPTACHA.<\/li>\n<li>Scroll down and from the last section, you can choose what your <strong>Whitelist Notification<\/strong> will be, whether or not you would like <strong>Advance Protection<\/strong> and if you would like to <strong>Disable Submit Button<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>When finished click <strong>Save Changes<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><video width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" controls loop autoplay muted><source src=\"\/support\/articles\/attachment\/868\/inline\/original\/1568119793\/reCAPTCHA.mp4\">Your browser does not support the video tag.<\/video><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s it! You have now added a reCAPTCHA to your WordPress site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guide will help LCN customers with a WordPress site secure their contact forms, comment sections and other areas of their site with a Google reCAPTCHA to help protect your site from spam and bot abuse. 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