Preventing spam on Wordpress

Google's recaptcha

What is recaptcha and how/will it help prevent spam ?

For answers to those questions you can look at google's page about recaptcha(https://google.com/recaptcha)

Installation

This installation guide requires Wordpress 3.8 or higher

• Go to the Wordpress recaptcha plugin site (https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-captcha/) and download the latest version on our site in to the Wordpress installation folder
• Extract the contents of the archive in to ./wp-content/plugins/
• Navigate to the Wordpress admin dashbord and select the plugin link (on the left side of the dashboard)
• Activate the google recaptcha plugin
• This will give you a link to the configuration page of the plugin or you can select the settings link located below the plugin
• Follow the instructions on the page and depending on your configuration recaptcha will start

Video instructions

The makers of the Wordpress recaptcha have a video tutorial. This will supplement the above instructions, particularly the last step. (https://youtu.be/RUJ9VwZLFSY)