reCAPTCHA V3 for Jetpack vs WS Form LITE – Drag & Drop Contact Form Builder

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.

Create Professional, Mobile-Friendly, Accessible Forms for WordPress – For Free! WS Form LITE is a powerful, feature-rich form builder that lets you create fully styled, responsive, and accessible forms. Unlike other plugins, WS Form LITE includes premium-quality features at no cost, such as unlimited forms, customizable styling, submission exporting, and robust anti-spam protection. Perfect for websites of all sizes, WS Form LITE empowers you to build smarter forms with ease. Choose from single-click templates or build your own form for WordPress using the unique drag and drop form editor. Create Beautiful Forms with Ease WS Form LITE includes an incredibly powerful and intuitive form styler, enabling you to design stunning forms directly within WordPress. Whether you’re matching your site’s branding or building custom layouts from scratch, WS Form’s Styler gives you full control over the appearance of your forms, no coding required. Included Features Unlimited Forms Unlimited Submissions Unlimited Styles Accessibility Friendly CaptchaFox Clean HTML 5 Code Cloudflare Turnstile Captcha Data Sources Drag and Drop Layout Editor Elementor Angie Integration Framework Friendly (Bootstrap, Foundation) GDPR Ready Google reCAPTCHA hCaptcha MCP Server Mobile Friendly Multiple Tab Forms Responsive Forms Section Library Send Unlimited Emails Single Click Templates Styler Translation Variables How to Create a Form in WordPress Go to WS Form > Add New. Choose a template or start from a blank form. Use the drag-and-drop editor to add fields. Click “Publish” and embed the form using your preferred page builder. Page Builders Add forms to your website using your favorite WordPress page builder: Beaver Builder Block Editor (Gutenberg) Breakdance Bricks Classic Editor Divi 4 Divi 5 Elementor Etch Oxygen For other builders simply use the WS Form shortcode! Spam Protection WS Form includes a powerful, multi-layer spam protection system to block unwanted submissions automatically. You get both built-in defenses and integrations with leading anti-spam services. Built-in Defenses Honeypot to silently trap bots WordPress NONCE validation Field validation (client-side and server-side) Duplicate submission detection and blocking IP rate limiting and throttling Keyword, domain, user agent, and IP blocking rules Optional server-side custom validation hooks Anti-Spam Fields and Integrations AbuseIPDB Akismet CaptchaFox Clearout Cloudflare Turnstile Google reCAPTCHA hCaptcha Works alongside third-party services such as CleanTalk and OOPSpam Multilingual Forms and Translation Translate your forms using your favorite multilingual plugin, or create different forms per language: Polylang TranslatePress Weglot WPML Manual translation Upgrade to PRO This plugin is the free LITE edition of WS Form PRO. The PRO edition comes with unrivaled additional features: 65+ Feature Rich Field Types Calculated Fields Cascading Select, Checkbox and Radio Fields Conditional Logic Conversational Forms Data Encryption Debug Console E-Commerce Repeatable Sections Save Progress Signatures Statistics Track Visitors … and more! Upgrade to WS Form PRO. PRO Integrations Airtable Akismet Amazon S3 AutomatorWP ActiveCampaign Authorize.Net Accept AWeber Bento Brevo (Sendinblue) Campaign Monitor Clearout Constant Contact ConvertKit dotdigital Drip Dropbox Fluent CRM Freshdesk GetResponse Google Address Google Drive Google Map Google Sheets Groundhogg HighLevel HubSpot iContact InstaWP Klaviyo Laposta LeadConnector Mailchimp MailerLite MailPoet Mailster Make Modula Mollie Moosend Notion OpenAI PayPal Checkout PDF Pipedrive Post Management Salesforce Slack Stripe Elements Twilio User Management Webex WooCommerce WP Fusion Zapier Zendesk Zoho CRM …. or use the Webhook action to integrate with your own custom APIs or external systems. PRO Custom Field Plugin Compatibility ACF ACPT JetEngine Meta Box Pods Toolset Theme / Framework Support WS Form is compatible with all WordPress themes, and also outputs native HTML for the following front-end frameworks: Bootstrap 5+ Bootstrap 4.1-4.5.x Bootstrap 4.0 Bootstrap 3.x Foundation 6.4+ Foundation 6.0-6.3.1 Foundation 5.x Performance WS Form was built with enterprise level performance in mind. WS Form does not interfere with the loading of other page or post content on your website and isolates submission records to ensure as your website grows your page load speed is not affected. All form code is HTML 5 compliant and if your website theme uses a framework such as Bootstrap or Foundation WS Form automatically outputs code to suit that framework. This means your form loads as fast as possible without any unnecessary overhead typically found in other form plugins for WordPress. Click here to learn more about the WSForm performance features. Extensive Field Types WS Form comes complete with all the field types you need to build a contact form. Upgrade to WS Form PRO to take advantage of all the form field types available, including: Color Picker Date / Time File Upload Google Address Google Map Google Routing hCaptcha HTML Legal Media Capture (Includes QR code reader) Message Previous Tab / Next Tab Price Progress Bar Range Slider Rating reCAPTCHA Save Signature Validation … and more! For Developers WS Form PRO comes with a unique debug console that provides you with rapid, form population capabilities (perfect for form testing!), as well as comprehensive event and error logging. 3rd Party Use WS Form includes the following third party components: Date Format by Jacob Wright – Used for formatting server and post dates on the public JavaScript interface. Intl-Tel-Input – Used for international telephone input Select2 – Used for AJAX select dropdowns CanIUse.com – Used for linking to field and field attribute compatibility pages Coloris – Used for the color picker in the styler External Services WS Form uses the following API endpoints to provide services within the plugin: AbuseIPDB https://api.abuseipdb.com/api/v2/ This endpoint is called when AbuseIPDB spam protection is enabled to check the submitter IP address, and optionally to report an IP when a submission is marked as spam. Terms of Use / Privacy Policy CaptchaFox https://api.captchafox.com/siteverify This endpoint is called when a form is submitted to validate a CaptchaFox field. Terms of Use / Privacy Policy Google reCaptcha https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify This endpoint is called when a form is submitted to validate a reCaptcha field. Terms of Use / Privacy Policy hCaptcha https://hcaptcha.com/siteverify This endpoint is called when a form is submitted to validate an hCaptcha field. Terms of Use / Privacy Policy Turnstile https://challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile/v0/siteverify This endpoint is called when a form is submitted to validate a Turnstile field. Terms of Use / Privacy Policy WS Form – Knowledge base popular articles https://wsform.com/plugin-support/knowledgebase_content.php This endpoint is called when the support sidebar is opened to show popular knowledge base articles. Terms of Use / Privacy Policy WS Form – Knowledge base search https://wsform.com/plugin-support/knowledgebase_search.php This endpoint is called when a knowledge base search is performed in the support sidebar to return knowledge article results. Terms of Use / Privacy Policy WS Form – Support ticket requests https://wsform.com/plugin-support/contact.php This endpoint is called when a support ticket request is submitted in the support sidebar to create the support ticket and return the ticket ID. Terms of Use / Privacy Policy WS Form – Deactivation feedback requests https://wsform.com/plugin-support/deactivate_feedback.php This endpoint is called when deactivation feedback is submitted to provide your feedback to WS Form. Terms of Use / Privacy Policy WS Form – Select, checkbox and radio presets https://cdn.wsform.com/plugin-support/preset.json This endpoint is called when the preset option is selected for a select, checkbox or radio field to return the available presets and preset data (e.g. List of countries). Terms of Use / Privacy Policy Support Need help? Check out our extensive knowledge base. For support, please visit the WS Form LITE support forum.