Native Recaptcha was added into Joomla in version Joomla 2.5. Using Recaptcha is a great way of preventing bots from making fake accounts and content on your site.
2. Native Recaptcha was added into Joomla in
version Joomla 2.5. Using Recaptcha is a great
way of preventing bots from making fake
accounts and content on your site.
3. There are five steps to setting up
Recaptcha:
1.Log in to your administrator back-end.
2.To enable Recaptcha:
For Contact forms and the Registration form:
Go to Global Configuration, and select the "Site" tab.
Choose "Captcha - Recaptcha" in your "Default
Captcha" field.
Click Save & Close.
4. For the Registration form only
Go to your User Manager. You can find this under Users along the top
menu or in the buttons on the main page of your Administrator panel.
Choose one of the following
"Use Default" in your "Default Captcha" field. (This is the default
setting and follows the "Default Captcha" field setting in Global
Configuration)
"None Selected" in your "Default Captcha" field. (This setting ignors
the "Default Captcha" field setting in Global Configuration. Used
when you want Recaptcha in Contact forms but not in the Registration
form.)
"Captcha - Recaptcha" in your "Default Captcha" field. (Only needed
if "Default Captcha" field setting in Global Configuration is set to "-
None Selected-" and when you want the Recaptcha in contact form but
not in the Contact forms).
Click Save & Close.
5. 3.Go to your Plug-In Manager. You can find this under
the Extensions drop down menu in the top menu or
in the buttons on the main page of your
Administrator panel.
6. 4.Edit the Plug-In "Captcha – ReCaptcha":
Set Status to "Enabled"
Copy and paste the Public and Private keys in their
appropriate fields on the right.
To get the Public and Private keys by signing in with
your Google account (create an account if you don't
have one)
Once you have register your website domain, and
Google will provide you with your ReCaptcha keys.
Click Save & Close
