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==Google's recaptcha== | ==Google's recaptcha== | ||
===What is recaptcha and how does/will it help prevent spam ?=== | ===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) | For answers to those questions you can look at google's page about recaptcha (https://google.com/recaptcha) | ||
===Installation=== | ===Installation=== | ||
Revision as of 02:49, 26 October 2019
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
