CAPTCHA

A CAPTCHA is an anti-spam technique which helps to protect your website from spam and abuse while letting real people pass through with ease. WPForms supports two popular services.

Not sure which service is right for you? Check out our comparison for more details.

hCaptcha is a free and privacy-oriented spam prevention service. Within your forms, hCaptcha will display a checkbox asking users to prove they're human (much like Google's v2 Checkbox reCAPTCHA). This is a simple step for legitimate site visitors, but is extremely effective at blocking spam.

For more details on how hCaptcha works, as well as a step by step setup guide, please check out our documentation.

Displays to users who fail the verification process.

reCAPTCHA is a free anti-spam service from Google which helps to protect your website from spam and abuse while letting real people pass through with ease.

Google offers 3 versions of reCAPTCHA (all supported within WPForms):

  • v2 Checkbox reCAPTCHA: Prompts users to check a box to prove they're human.
  • v2 Invisible reCAPTCHA: Uses advanced technology to detect real users without requiring any input.
  • v3 reCAPTCHA: Uses a behind-the-scenes scoring system to detect abusive traffic, and lets you decide the minimum passing score. Recommended for advanced use only (or if using Google AMP).

Sites already using one type of reCAPTCHA will need to create new site keys before switching to a different option.

Read our walk through to learn more and for step-by-step directions.

Displays to users who fail the verification process.

reCAPTCHA v3 returns a score (1.0 is very likely a good interaction, 0.0 is very likely a bot). If the score less than or equal to this threshold, the form submission will be blocked and the message above will be displayed.

Cloudflare Turnstile is a free, CAPTCHA-like service for preventing form spam while protecting data privacy. It offers a user-friendly experience by confirming visitors are real humans without requiring them to solve puzzles or math questions.

For more details on how Turnstile works, as well as a step by step setup guide, please check out our documentation.

Displays to users who fail the verification process.

This CAPTCHA is generated using your site and secret keys. If an error is displayed, please double-check your keys.

Please save settings to generate a preview of your CAPTCHA here.

Check this option to forcefully remove other CAPTCHA occurrences in order to prevent conflicts. Only enable this option if your site is having compatibility issues or instructed by support.

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