Captcha by BestWebSoft – Advanced Spam Protection, Math & OCR-Friendly Captcha for Site Forms vs Really Simple Security – Simple and Performant Security (formerly Really Simple SSL)

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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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

Easily improve site security with WordPress Hardening, Two-Factor Authentication (2FA), Login Protection, Vulnerability Detection and SSL certificate. Really simple, Effective and Performant WordPress Security Really Simple Security is the most lightweight and easy-to-use security plugin for WordPress. It secures your WordPress website with SSL certificate generation, including proper 301 https redirection and SSL enforcement, scanning for possible vulnerabilities, Login Protection and implementing essential WordPress hardening features. We believe that security should have the absolute minimum effect on website performance, user experience and maintainability. Therefore, Really Simple Security is: Lightweight: Every security feature is developed with a modular approach and with performance in mind. Disabled features won’t load any redundant code. Easy-to-use: 1-minute configuration with short onboarding setup. Security Features Easy SSL Migration Migrates your website to HTTPS and enforces SSL in just one click. 301 redirect via PHP or .htaccess Secure cookies Let’s Encrypt: Install an SSL Certificate if your hosting provider supports manual installation. Server Health Check: Your server configuration is every bit as important for your website security. WordPress Hardening Tweak your configuration and keep WordPress fortified and safe by tackling potential weaknesses. Prevent code execution in the uploads folder Prevent login feedback and disable user enumeration Disable XML-RPC Disable directory browsing Username restrictions (block ‘admin’ and public names) and much more.. Vulnerability Detection Get notified when plugins, themes or WP core contain vulnerabilities and need appropriate action. Login Protection Allow or enforce Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for specific user roles. Users receive a two-factor code via Email. Improve Security with Really Simple Security Pro Protect your site with all essential security features by upgrading to Really Simple Security Pro. Advanced SSL enforcement Mixed Content Scan & Fixer. Detect files that are requested over HTTP and fix them to HTTPS, both Front- and Back-end. Enable HTTP Strict Transport Security and configure your site for the HSTS Preload list. Firewall Really Simple Security Pro includes a performant and efficient WordPress firewall, to stop bots, crawlers and bad actors with IP and username blocks. 404 blocking – Blocks crawlers as they trigger unusual numbers of 404 errors. Region blocking – Only allow/block access to your site from specific regions. Automated and customisable Firewall rules. IP blocklist and allowlist. Security Headers Security headers protect your site visitors against the risk of clickjacking, cross-site-forgery attacks, stealing login credentials and malware. Independent of your Server Configuration, works on Apache, LiteSpeed, NGINX, etc. Protect your website visitors with X-XSS Protection, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, a Referrer Policy and CORS headers. Automatically generate your WordPress-tailored Content Security Policy. Vulnerability Measures When a vulnerability is detected in a plugin, theme or WordPress core you will get notified accordingly. With Vulnerability Measures, you can configure simple but effective measures to make sure that a critical vulnerability won’t remain unattended. Force update: An update process will be tried multiple times until it can be assumed development of a theme or plugin is abandoned. You will be notified during these steps. Quarantine: When a plugin or theme can’t be updated to solve a vulnerability, Really Simple Security can quarantine the plugin. Advanced Site Hardening Choose a custom login URL Automated File Permissions check and fixer Rename and randomize your database prefix Change the debug.log file location to a non-public folder Disable application passwords Control admin creation Disable HTTP methods, reducing HTTP requests Login Protection Secure your website’s login process and user accounts with powerful security measures. Two-Step verification (Email login) 2FA (two factor authentication) with TOTP Passwordless login with passkey login Enforce strong passwords and frequent password change Limit Login Attempts With Limit Login Attempts you can configure a threshold to temporarily or permanently block IP addresses or (non-existing) usernames. You can also throw a CAPTCHA after a failed login (hCaptcha or Google reCaptcha) Access Control Restrict access to your site for specific regions. Add specific IP addresses or IP ranges to the Blocklist or Allowlist. Useful Links Documentation Security Definitions Translate Really Simple Security Issues & pull requests Feature requests Love Really Simple Security? If you want to support the continuing development of this plugin, please consider buying Really Simple Security Pro, which includes some excellent security features and premium support. About Really Simple Plugins Our mission is to make complex WordPress requirements really easy. Really Simple Security is developed by Really Simple Plugins. For generating SSL certificates, Really Simple Security uses the le acme2 PHP Let’s Encrypt client library, thanks to ‘fbett’ for providing it. Vulnerability Detection uses WP Vulnerability, an open-source initiative by Javier Casares. Want to join as a collaborator? We’re on GitHub as well!