Captcha by BestWebSoft – Advanced Spam Protection, Math & OCR-Friendly Captcha for Site Forms vs La Sentinelle antispam

Captcha by BestWebSoft is the premier spam protection and security plugin for WordPress, designed to safeguard your website’s forms from spam and malicious submissions. This plugin provides robust protection for login, registration, password recovery, comments, WooCommerce checkout, and custom forms using advanced captcha solutions, including Math captcha and OCR-friendly captcha. Enhance your website’s security and user experience with versatile captcha options that are easy to set up and manage, ensuring uninterrupted protection against spam without the need for code modifications. Choose from Invisible captcha, Character recognition captcha, and Slide captcha to customize your protection strategy. Block bots effectively with powerful math-based challenges or smooth, user-friendly sliding interactions. Captcha by BestWebSoft integrates seamlessly with popular plugins and is optimized for spam protection on WordPress forms, making it ideal for WooCommerce, Contact Form 7, and other integrations. Secure your site today with a lightweight, fast, and reliable solution that prioritizes both security and user experience. Stop spam now with the most effective WordPress captcha solution! View Demo Free Features Add captcha to: Login form Registration form Reset password form Comments form Protected post password form Contact Form Car Rental V2 Pro Custom form Choose Captcha type: Invisible Character Recognition Simple math actions such as addition, subtraction, and multiplication Slide captcha Enhance captcha protection with: Letters Numbers Images Hide captcha for: Registered users in comments form Set captcha submission time limit Settings for displaying captchas by Weekdays and Hours Refresh captcha option Edit captcha title and notifications Compatible with latest WordPress version Incredibly simple settings for fast setup without modifying code Detailed step-by-step documentations and videos Multilingual and RTL ready Force Strong Passwords Pro Features All features from Free version included plus: Compatible with : Contact Form 7 (since v 3.4) Subscriber Jetpack contact form MailChimp for WordPress Ninja Forms Gravity Forms WPForms Caldera Forms Formidable Contact Form MemberPress Compatible with WooCommerce: Login form Register form Lost password form Checkout billing form Compatible with bbPress: New Topic form Reply form Compatible with BuddyPress: Registration form Comments form Create a Group form Compatible with Forums – wpForo: Login form Registration form New Topic form Reply form Compatible with Divi : Contact Form Login Form Compatible with LearnDash login: Login form Registration form Compatible with BuddyBoss: Registration form Compatible with Elementor Pro: Elementor Contact form [NEW] Compatible with BWS Login Register Form: Login form Registration form Forgot Password form Compatible with Easy Digital Downloads Form: Login form Registration form Forgot Password form Hide captcha for: Allowed IP addresses Merge IP addresses from Limit Attempts plugin with Captcha Allow List Configure all subsites on the network Captcha submission time limit for separate forms Image packages with hand-drawn digits Add and enable unlimited number of image packages at the same time Edit Slide captcha appearance Block disposable emails Add custom code via plugin settings page Get answer to your support question within one business day (Support Policy) Upgrade to Pro Now If you have feature suggestions or ideas you’d like to see in the plugin, we’d love to hear from you! 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Affiliate Program Earn a 20% commission by selling premium WordPress plugins and themes by BestWebSoft — Join the Affiliate Program Translation Arabic (ar_AR) (thanks to Albayan Design Hani Aladoli) Bangla (bn_BD) (thanks to SM Mehdi Akram, www.shamokaldarpon.com) Belarusian (bel) (thanks to Natasha Diatko) Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) (thanks to Breno Jacinto, www.iconis.org.br) Bulgarian (bg_BG) (thanks to Nick) Catalan (ca) (thanks to Psiete) Chinese (zh_CN) (thanks to TIM, Jack Chen, www.jackchen.im) Taiwan (zh_TW) (thanks to Kaiconan) Croatian (hr) (thanks to Daniel) Czech (cs_CZ) (thanks to Michal Kučera www.n0lim.it) Danish (da_DK) (thanks to Byrial Ole Jensed) Dutch (nl_NL) (thanks to Bart Duineveld) Estonian (et) (thanks to Ahto Tanner) Greek (el) (thanks to Aris, www.paraxeno.net) Farsi/Persian (fa_IR) (thanks to Mostafa Asadi, www.ma73.ir, Morteza Gholami) Finnish (fi) (thanks to Mikko Sederholm) French (fr_FR) (thanks to Martel Benjamin, Capronnier luc) German (de_DE) (thanks to Thomas Hartung, Lothar Schiborr) Hebrew (he_IL) (thanks to Sagive SEO) Hindi (hi_IN) (thanks to Outshine Solutions, www.outshinesolutions.com) Hungarian (hu_HU) (thanks to Peter Aprily) Japanese (ja) (thanks to Foken) Indonesian (id_ID) (thanks to Nasrulhaq Muiz, www.al-badar.net) Italian (it_IT) (thanks to Marco) Latvian (lv) (thanks to Juris O) Lithuanian (lt_LT) (thanks to Arnas) Norwegian (nb_NO) (thanks to Tore Hjartland) Polish (pl_PL) (thanks to Krzysztof Opuchlik) Portuguese (pt_PT) (thanks to João Paulo Antunes) Romanian (ro_RO) (thanks to Ciprian) Russian (ru_RU) Serbian (sr_RS) (thanks to Radovan Georgijevic) Slovak (sk_SK) (thanks to Branco Radenovich) Slovenian (sl_SI) (thanks to Uroš Klopčič, www.klopcic.net) Spanish (es_ES) Swedish (sv_SE) (thanks to Christer Rönningborg, Blittan) Tagalog (tl) (thanks to Roozbeh Jalali, www.languageconnect.net) Turkish (tr_TR) (thanks to Can Atasever, www.canatasever.com) Ukrainian (uk) Vietnamese (vi_VN) (thanks to NDT Solutions) Some translations may be incomplete. We continuously add new features that require translation. To create or update a language pack, send the text of PO and MO files to BestWebSoft. Download the latest Poedit version here. Recommended Plugins Limit Attempts — Protect your WordPress site against brute force attacks by limiting login attempts. Updater — Automatically check and update your WordPress core, plugins, and themes to the latest versions. Contact Form — A simple and essential contact form plugin for any WordPress site. Subscriber — Add an email newsletter sign-up form to WordPress posts, pages, and widgets. Collect and manage subscriber data effectively. Credits This plugin includes a license verification mechanism to ensure the authenticity of your license key and provide access to premium features and updates. The verification process involves securely connecting to our external service hosted on the BestWebSoft website: BestWebSoft. Privacy Policy End User License Agreement

Feel safe knowing that your website is safe from spam. La Sentinelle will guard your WordPress website against spam in a simple and effective way. It has antispam filters for comment forms and registration forms and can be extended to support plugins. The default settings should catch most spambots, and there is a settingspage to set it up according to your wishes. Current features include: 3 antispam features; Honeypot, Nonce, Form Timeout. These 3 spamfilters depend on JavaScript on the frontend. 1 antispam feature; Stop Forum Spam. Settingspage to set things up according to your wishes. Transparent to the visitor, no nagging with Captcha’s or other annoying things. By default no use of third-party services and no tracking of visitors. Lightweight and simple code. Logging for WordPress Comments and which spamfilter marked it as spam. Logging for Custom forms and which spamfilter marked it as spam. Statistics for every form how many spam submissions were blocked. WordPress forms that are protected: WordPress Comments form. WordPress Login form. WordPress Register form. WordPress Lost Password form. Form Plugins that are protected: Caldera Forms. Clean Login (Login form). Contact Form 7. Easy Digital Downloads (Login form, Register form). Everest Forms. Formidable Form Builder. Forminator. Newsletter Optin Box plugin (noptin) (standalone forms). Ultimate Member (Login form, Register form and Lost Password form). WooCommerce (Login form, Lost Password form). WPForms Lite. WP Job Manager plugin (submit job form when registering is enabled). Support If you have a problem or a feature request, please post it on the plugin’s support forum on wordpress.org. I will do my best to respond as soon as possible. If you send me an email, I will not reply. Please use the support forum. Translations Translations can be added very easily through GlotPress. You can start translating strings there for your locale. They need to be validated though, so if there’s no validator yet, and you want to apply for being validator (PTE), please post it on the support forum. I will make a request on make/polyglots to have you added as validator for this plugin/locale. How to choose an antispam plugin When you look through the WordPress Plugin Repository you will see more than a hundred antispam plugins. Which one is the best one? Short answer, there is no “best one”. No spamfilter and no method for spamfiltering is perfect. Slightly longer answer, you could try about twenty and choose the one that fits your needs best. But there is also a really long answer. There are different methods that can be used against spam, and every method has its drawbacks. In my opinion, having a low number of false positives is more important than perfectly marking all spam, you don’t want to miss out on important people or information. Nagging the user in some way has a similar effect, the user might not even want to bother with that and just walk away. Third party services: Services like Akismet, OOPSpam, Stop Forum Spam and also reCAPTCHA offer third party services to check for spam. This can be very effective, but you are giving user submitted data away to these third parties and are also giving your users up for tracking them. Captcha’s, reCAPTCHA and Quizz Questions: You are annoying your users and probably sending some of them away. This especially counts for reCAPTCHA for visitors who have third party cookies disabled. Blacklists: Often running behind the facts. That goes for the way of getting users off that list, and also in getting users on that list. Referer check: check if the Referer header is set correctly. You can never trust it is set correctly. Modern browsers are limiting the use of Referers, though for now that is mostly for third-party domains. JavaScript methods: Spammers often (always?) don’t use JavaScript, they just post the form with spammy data. Drawback for this method is that statistics say that about 1 percent of users has JavaScript disabled. Also, some websites have broken JavaScript, which might make the spamfilter break as well. Activation email for registering users. Users only get activated after clicking a link in an activation email. You still have all the non-activated users in your site however. You could have a bright idea about combining several methods, but then you get the drawbacks of all the methods you use. Another complication of choosing a good plugin is that most antispam plugins don’t tell you what methods they use. The documentation doesn’t tell you, and looking at the source code just leaves you confused at the chaos that it often is. My main motivation for writing this plugin is to offer a plugin that does spamfiltering with JavaScript methods in a simple and effective way. The claimed 1 percent of users that has JavaScript disabled will also be tech-savy enough to enable it again for your website. Compatibility This plugin is compatible with ClassicPress. Contributions This plugin is also available in Codeberg.