reCaptcha by BestWebSoft

Follow the next steps in order to get and enable reCaptcha protection using the official Google Captcha keys:

1. Open your WordPress admin dashboard.

2. Navigate to the plugin Settings page.

3. Click the “Get the API Keys” link.

4. Enter your domain name and click “Create Key” button.

5. You will see your public and private keys. Copy them and paste to the appropriate fields on plugin Settings page.

You should go to the Settings page and select the roles, for which you want to hide reCaptcha. Then you must click “Save Changes” button.

Follow the next steps in order to change the appearance of the reCaptcha:

1. Open your WordPress admin dashboard.

2. Navigate to the plugin Settings page.

3. Select reCAPTCHA version.

4. Find the “Theme” option (only available for versions 1 and 2) and select the necessary style from the drop-down list.

5. Save changes and check the result.

You might have a theme where “comments.php” is coded incorrectly. WordPress version matters.

(WP2 series): Make sure that you theme contains a tag <?php do_action('comment_form', $post->ID); ?> inside the file /wp-content/themes/[your_theme]/comments.php.

Most WP2 themes already have it. The best place to put this tag is before the comment text area, you can move it up if it is below the comment text area.

It depends on the comments form. If the hook call by means of which captcha works (‘after_comment_field’ or something like this) is present in the file comments.php, you can change captcha positioning by moving this hook call. Please find the file ‘comments.php’ in the theme and change position of the line

do_action( 'comment_form_after_fields' );

or any similar line – place it under the Submit button.

Follow the instructions below in order to add reCaptcha plugin to your custom PHP or HTML form:

1. Install the reCaptcha plugin and activate it.

2. (Optional) If you would like to have an ability to enable and disable the reCAPTCHA for your custom form on the plugin settings page, please add the following code to the ‘functions.php’ file of your theme: