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 dashword and select the plugin link (on the left side of the dashboard)
• activate the google recaptcha plugin
• this wil give you a link to the configuration page of the plugin or you can select the settings link located below the plugin
• follow the instruction on the page and depending on you configuration recaptcha wil 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)