General Support - reCAPTCHA - What is It and How to Enable
reCAPTCHA
This guide will go through reCAPTCHA - what it is and how to enable it.
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What is reCAPTCHA
reCAPTCHA is a test designed to filtrate bots. There are different versions of it. Learn more from Choosing the type of reCAPTCHA | reCAPTCHA.
A properly configured reCAPTCHA should result in a test like this:
Plugins With reCAPTCHA Support
Some of our plugins support the feature. It always requires a reCAPTCHA Site key and Site key.
- CM User Submitted Posts
- CM Routes Anonymous Posting
- CM Locations Anonymous Posting
- CM Reviews and Ratings
- CM Anonymous User Posting
- CM Expert Directory Community
- CM Tooltip Glossary Community Terms
- CM Registration and Invitation Codes (Important: be sure to use reCAPTCHA v2 Keys only!)
Step-by-Step - Acquiring the reCAPTCHA Keys
In every plugin, it's necessary to input reCAPTCHA key and secret key in order for the feature to work. Here is how to do it:
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- Access google.com/recaptcha.
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- On the reCAPTCHA page, you'll need to sign up or log-in using your Google account. Once you logged in, you need to navigate to v3 Admin Console.
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Next step, you need to register your site domain name (if you haven't already) in order to generate and retrieve your Site key and Secret key. It's a pretty quick process!
- Write the label for your site:
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Choose the type of reCAPTCHA:
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Enter your domain to the Domains field. The Field Owners is filled automatically, but you can add additional emails.
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Check the boxes for accepting the terms of service and sending alerts to owners and after that click the Submit button.
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After submitting the form to register your site, you should now have access to your reCaptcha keys.
You can copy the keys by clicking the respective buttons.
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- Now that you have your ReCaptcha keys, copy and paste them inside the corresponding text fields provided for each of them inside the plugin. For example:
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- Of course, don't forget to save your changes by clicking the "Update" button found at the bottom of the page.
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