reCaptcha by BestWebSoft vs Really Simple CAPTCHA

reCaptcha plugin is an effective security solution that protects your WordPress website forms from spam entries while letting real people pass through with ease. It can be used for login, registration, password recovery, comments, popular contact forms, and other. reCAPTCHA Version 3, Version 2, Invisible are included. Users are required to confirm that they are not a robot before the form can be submitted. It’s easy for people and hard for bots. View Demo Free Features Add reCaptcha to: Registration form Login form Reset password form Protected post password form Comments form Contact Form Testimonials Login & Register Form Custom form Hide reCaptcha for the allowlisted IP addresses Disable the submit button Validity check of keys in admin panel Available reCaptcha themes for Version 2: Light (default) Dark Compatible with Limit Attempts Hide reCaptcha in your forms for certain user roles Hide reCaptcha Badge (Invisible and V3) Supports reCaptcha: Version 2 Version 3 Invisible reCAPTCHA Add custom code via plugin settings page Compatible with latest WordPress version Incredibly simple settings for fast setup without modifying code Detailed step-by-step documentation and videos Multilingual and RTL ready Edit error message Hide Login page Force Strong Passwords Pro Features All features from Free version included plus: Compatible with: Contact Form 7 (since v 3.4) Subscriber Multilanguage Jetpack contact form Fast Secure Contact Form MailChimp for WordPress Ninja Forms Gravity Forms WPForms Caldera Forms Elementor Pro Contact Forms LearnDash Registration Page BuddyBoss Formidable Forms Forminator Forms Compatible with WooCommerce: Login form Register form Lost password form Checkout billing form Compatible with Divi: Divi Builder Contact form Divi Builder Login form Divi Theme Contact 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 Ultimate Member: Login form Registration form Profile form 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 Select reCaptcha language manually Activate reCaptcha on certain Weekdays and Hours Change size: normal or compact (for version 2) Configure all subsites on the network Block disposable emails Administrator Login notification Get answer to your support question within one business day (Support Policy) Upgrade to Pro Now If you have a feature suggestion or idea you’d like to see in the plugin, we’d love to hear about it! 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If you would like to create your own language pack or update the existing one, you can send the text of PO and MO files to BestWebSoft and we’ll add it to the plugin. You can download the latest version of the program for work with PO and MO files Poedit. Recommended Plugins Updater – Automatically check and update WordPress website core with all installed plugins and themes to the latest versions. Contact Form – Simple contact form plugin any WordPress website must have. Subscriber – Add email newsletter sign up form to WordPress posts, pages and widgets. Collect data and subscribe your users. Multilanguage – Translate WordPress website content to other languages manually. Create multilingual pages, posts, widgets, menus, etc. Credits lib/recaptchalib.php – Copyright © 2007. Mike Crawford, Ben Maurer (reCAPTCHA – http://recaptcha.net). All Rights Reserved. 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Really Simple CAPTCHA does not work alone and is intended to work with other plugins. It is originally created for Contact Form 7, however, you can use it with your own plugin. Note: This product is “really simple” as its name suggests, i.e., it is not strongly secure. If you need perfect security, you should try other solutions. How does it work? Really Simple CAPTCHA does not use PHP “Sessions” for storing states, unlike many other PHP CAPTCHA solutions, but stores them as temporary files. This allows you to embed it into WordPress without worrying about conflicts. When you generate a CAPTCHA, Really Simple CAPTCHA creates two files for it; one is an image file of CAPTCHA, and the other is a text file which stores the correct answer to the CAPTCHA. The two files have the same (random) prefix in their file names, for example, “a7hk3ux8p.png” and “a7hk3ux8p.txt.” In this case, for example, when the respondent answers “K5GF” as an answer to the “a7hk3ux8p.png” image, then Really Simple CAPTCHA calculates hash of “K5GF” and tests it against the hash stored in the “a7hk3ux8p.txt” file. If the two match, the answer is confirmed as correct. How to use with your plugin Note: Below are instructions for plugin developers. First, create an instance of ReallySimpleCaptcha class: $captcha_instance = new ReallySimpleCaptcha(); You can change the instance variables as you wish. // Change the background color of CAPTCHA image to black $captcha_instance->bg = array( 0, 0, 0 ); See really-simple-captcha.php if you are interested in other variables. Generate a random word for CAPTCHA. $word = $captcha_instance->generate_random_word(); Generate an image file and a corresponding text file in the temporary directory. $prefix = wp_rand(); $captcha_instance->generate_image( $prefix, $word ); Then, show the image and get an answer from respondent. Check the correctness of the answer. $correct = $captcha_instance->check( $prefix, $the_answer_from_respondent ); If the $correct is true, go ahead. Otherwise, block the respondent — as it would appear not to be human. And last, remove the temporary image and text files, as they are no longer in use. $captcha_instance->remove( $prefix ); That’s all. If you wish to see a live sample of this, you can try Contact Form 7.