reCAPTCHA V3 for Jetpack vs WP Mail Logging

reCAPTCHA V3 for Jetpack enhances your WordPress site’s security by integrating Google reCAPTCHA v3—an invisible, score-based spam filter—with Jetpack contact forms, comments, and WooCommerce registration. Designed for block-based themes (e.g., Full Site Editing), it uses behavioral scoring to block bots seamlessly. Key features: Invisible Protection: Analyzes user behavior (e.g., mouse movements, session duration) to assign a score (0.0–1.0) for contact forms, comments, and WooCommerce registration. Customizable Threshold: Set a score threshold (default 0.5) to balance spam blocking and user access for all forms. Conditional Loading: Control where reCAPTCHA loads: on all pages, specific page types (e.g., front page, single posts), or specific slugs. Improves performance by skipping unnecessary pages. Debug Mode: Toggle console.log output for debugging purposes; disable for production to reduce browser console clutter. Skip for Logged-in Users (new in 1.17): New checkbox to bypass reCAPTCHA entirely for any logged-in user (admins, customers, members, etc.). Perfect for membership sites where only guests need protection. Automatic Spam Handling: Form submissions with scores below the threshold are reliably blocked and moved to the Jetpack Feedback CPT spam folder in the admin interface. Comments with scores below the threshold are automatically moved to the spam folder without triggering approval emails. New in 1.13 / 1.14: Blocks bot account creation on WooCommerce registration form (including the My Account page). Submission Stats & Logging (improved in 1.19): Tracks total submissions and logs the last 20 submissions (forms, comments, registration) with scores, status, and now the client IP address. Includes a secure “Clear Log” button and cleaner, shorter messages for better readability. Jetpack Integration: Requires Jetpack for contact form and comment protection, fully compatible with block-based forms and Jetpack forums. Email Enhancements: Appends reCAPTCHA scores to form submission emails and comment notification/moderation emails for transparency. Admin Feedback: Displays reCAPTCHA scores to admins on form success pages and logs detailed debug info for failed submissions. Customizable User Notices (new in 1.21): Change the messages shown to users when a reCAPTCHA token is missing or when the score falls below your threshold. Supports {score} and {threshold} placeholders. Perfect for modern WordPress sites, this plugin provides robust spam prevention with insightful analytics, ensuring a seamless user experience while keeping your forms, comments, and registrations spam-free. External Services This plugin uses Google reCAPTCHA v3, a service provided by Google to verify user interactions and prevent spam on contact forms, comments, and WooCommerce registration. Purpose: Google reCAPTCHA v3 analyzes user behavior to assign a score (0.0–1.0) indicating the likelihood of a user being a bot. This score determines whether form submissions, comments, or registrations are blocked (moved to spam). Data Sent: When a user submits a form, comment, or registers, the plugin sends a reCAPTCHA token to Google’s API (https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify). The request includes only the secret key and response token. When Data is Sent: Data is sent to Google’s API on every Jetpack contact form, comment, or WooCommerce registration submission. Service Provider: Google LLC. Terms of Service: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/about/ Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy Users must agree to Google’s terms of service when setting up reCAPTCHA keys. No user consent is required for reCAPTCHA v3, as it operates invisibly without challenges. License This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later. See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html for details.

WP Mail Logging is the most popular plugin for logging emails sent from your WordPress site. Simply activate it and it will work immediately, no extra configuration is needed. Are your WordPress emails not being sent or delivered? Use this plugin to log all outgoing emails from your WordPress site. If there are any errors when sending the email from your site, our email logs will catch that error and display it to you. This will allow you to debug and fix your email sending issue. Did a client not receive your email? Our email logs allow you to resend any email that was sent from your site. No more lost emails! Do you just want to keep a record of all emails sent from your site? By default, WordPress and your web host do not log, store or keep track of emails sent from your website. This plugin will allow you to do just that. Our email logs will store every email that is sent from your WordPress site. You can search and view a particular email log, inspect its content or attachments, and even resend that email. What email information is logged? All emails sent from your WordPress site are logged. And here is the information that is stored: Email Subject Email Content (HTML or text) Email Attachments Email Headers (to, from, reply-to, cc, bcc, …) Error Message (in case there was an error while attempting to send the email) IP Address of originating server (can be enabled in the settings) Date and Time of the email Receiver (the TO email address) Why are my logged emails still not delivered to the inbox? There are a lot of steps that emails have to make in order to be delivered to the recipient’s inbox. When your WordPress site sends an email, there’s no guarantee it will be delivered. This is what the email’s journey looks like: WordPress creates an email WordPress passes the email to your website host and that email gets logged by our plugin The host server takes the email and sends it (SMTP or Mail Transfer Agent) Recipient server receives or blocks the email If the email is accepted, the spam filter decides if it goes to the inbox or the spam folder Recipients see the email and might open it. This plugin does not track delivery after step 2. If you have deliverability issues, we suggest installing the WP Mail SMTP plugin. WP Mail SMTP fixes WordPress email deliverability problems, you can choose between 12 email providers (Gmail, Outlook, SendLayer, Mailgun, …) to resolve your email sending issue and it’s super easy to set up. WP Mail SMTP is trusted by more than 3 million websites. Credits The plugin was created and launched in 2014 by Christian Zöller.