Preventing spam on Joomla

Google's recaptcha

What is recaptcha and how does/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 joomla 3.4 (or higher).

• Go to google's recaptcha administrator page(https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin) and register your site
  • example of public and private key (https://i.imgur.com/vGJKEXx.png)

• Navigate to the admin panel of your joomla instalation
  • Select plugins from the extentions panel in the top menu.

• Search for recaptcha in the search box
  • Enable recaptcha by clicking on the status icon next to recaptcha

• One complete it is critical that you configure your recaptcha properly
  • Go to recaptcha's configuration page by selecting recaptcha in the above mentioned panel
  • make sure you select version 2 (default is version 1)
  • Fill in the required keys you got on google's recaptcha's administrator page

• Once done joomla will begin to require recaptcha's