Preventing spam on Joomla: Difference between revisions

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* Navigate to the admin pannel of your joomla instalation
* Navigate to the admin pannel of your joomla instalation
** Select plugins from the extentions pane in the to menu.
** Select plugins from the extentions pane in the top menu.


* Search for recaptcha in the search box
* Search for recaptcha in the search box

Revision as of 16:26, 23 February 2016

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 joomla 3.4 (or higher).

  • Navigate to the admin pannel of your joomla instalation
    • Select plugins from the extentions pane 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 recaptcah's configuration page by selecting recaptcha in the abovementioned pane
    • make sure you select version 2 (default is version 1)
    • Fill in the required keys you got on google's recaptcha administrator page
  • Once done joomla wil begin to require recaptcha's