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Advanced Google reCAPTCHA

by WebFactory

Version: 1.31

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Description

Advanced Google reCAPTCHA protects your WordPress site from spam comments & brute force login attacks using captcha. This captcha plugin, quickly adds Google reCAPTCHA and other captcha tests to WordPress comment form, login form, and other forms.

Using Advanced Google reCAPTCHA (most popular captcha on the market), you’ll be safe from spam comments and protect user accounts, WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, BuddyPress and other forms from brute-force login attacks.

reCaptcha works for:

  • Login Form
  • Registration Form
  • Reset Password Form
  • Comment Form
  • BuddyPress Form
  • WooCommerce Form
  • Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) Login Form
  • Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) Registration Form

Captcha uses these 3rd party libs:

  • Chart.js, 2017 Nick Downie, MIT
  • DataTables, 2008-2017 SpryMedia Ltd, MIT
  • moment.js, Tim Wood, Iskren Chernev, MIT
  • SweetAlert 2, github.com/Sweetalert2/Sweetalert2, MIT
  • tooltipster, www.heteroclito.fr/modules/tooltipster/, MIT
  1. Upload Advanced Google reCAPTCHA files to the “/wp-content/plugins/advanced-google-recaptcha” directory, or install Advanced Google reCAPTCHA through the WordPress Plugins page directly.
  2. Activate Advanced Google reCAPTCHA through the WordPress Plugins page.
  3. Use the menu Advanced Google reCAPTCHA to configure it.
  1. Login form

    Login form

  2. Registration form

    Registration form

  3. Reset Password form

    Reset Password form

  4. Comment form

    Comment form

  5. BuddyPress form

    BuddyPress form

  6. EDD Registration form

    EDD Registration form

  7. EDD Login form

    EDD Login form

  8. WooCommerce Login and Registration form

    WooCommerce Login and Registration form

  9. Plugin settings

    Plugin settings

How to disable this plugin?

Just use standard Plugin overview page in WordPress admin section and deactivate it or rename plugin folder /wp-content/plugins/advanced-google-recaptcha over FTP access.

Does Captcha work for comment form?

Yes, it works for WordPress comment form.

Will it slow my site down?

No, it won’t. It’s only loaded on the pages it protects.

How can I report security bugs?

You can report security bugs through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team help validate, triage and handle any security vulnerabilities. Report a security vulnerability.

Didn't work

By madukdiver on July 4, 2025

Easy to install the plugin. Looks very good but.... I set up Google reCAPTCHA v2, confirmed the keys were working ok. But no "I'm not a robot" CAPTCHA appeared on any of the pages where it should have. Couldn't get it to do anything useful at all. Mine's a very standard WordPress site so nothing special, very disappointed by this utter waste of time. Good luck if it works for you but pointless in my case

Absolute garbage - nothing works

By jessebrightman on May 1, 2025

Absolute garbage spam upsell junk plugin. Older versions were great but now it's just bloatware and plain doesn't work and forces you into paid junk.

Awesome plugin

By Quotes Ninja (quotesninja) on March 27, 2025

I'm using this plugin since 2 years. I mostly use this plugin for comment form. Must use plugin for login, registration and comments form.

After Install This Plugin Now I am not able to Login

By Yeasir Arafat (arafatcdr) on March 23, 2025

After Install this Plugin I am not able to login with my username and password It is may be changing my login details ...

Do not Install ... I am requesting the developer to make a quick fix for this ...

Always problems

By masterita on February 27, 2025

The basic functions of this plugin do not work, so I don't trust paying for the pro-plan will be worth it. So many users complain about not being able to log in daily. Even when I try to set the very basic "I AM NOT A ROBOT" button, it always asks the math question, which apparently thinks math is racist because 2+2 does not equal 4 with this plugin.

Not Working

By Besalb Kercuku (besalb) on January 31, 2025

I have carefully followed all the procedures (this isn't my first time), yet Google reCaptcha v3 is still not appearing on my site. It's simply not working!

Recaptcha refuses constantly to work

By martinloehr on January 16, 2025

Using a simple basic domain and setup WP with standard features to try the recaptcha Plugin delieveres consequently the same error, even if the key check inside the plugin says "All Okay".
There is NO Subdomain or any other structure which can make it difficult, its only a simple DE domain which tells me fehlerhinweis für inhaber der website invalid domain for site key.
But it is not its clearly defines at google recaptcha, not used for another domain NO only for one domain.
So I think there is a clear improvement error which has to be found.
In the meantime we will uninstall the plugin otherwise the website and so the business is interupted.

Let me know when the error is fixed.
Thanks

Excellent plugin, user friendly

By tictubso on December 6, 2024

This is a very good plugin with very good support. It's easy to use and does what it says on the tin. 5 stars

Completely broken

By php4fan on October 17, 2024

We were using this plugin to protect the Comments form, and like many other people, we were getting tons of spam by bots regardless. And that's not because Google Recaptcha v3 itself is that bad, or because spambots have learnt how to bypass it, but because the plugin is fundamentally broken.

Its authors clearly don't even understand how Google Recaptcha v3 works. For more details see my post in the forum (apparently we are not supposed to include links in reviews?).

Basically the plugin completely ignores the score given by Google that tells you how likely the submission is to come from a human or a bot, and lets through everything.

Oh, and that was prior to the latest update (version 1.23). The latest version has a bug in the JavaScript code that, instead, causes ALL submissions to be rejected with a recaptcha error. That's a lot of fun if you enabled the Recaptcha for the login form! (clarification: that means you'll be unable to log in to your website).

So it went from "completely useless" to "will brick your website".

How this has more than 100k installations is beyond my understanding.

Locked me o ut of my own site

By gardendarts on October 11, 2024

DON'T DOWNLOAD THIS PLUGIN. IT LOCKED ME OUT OF MY OWN SITE WHEN REDIRECTING THE LOGIN PAGE. EVEN AFTER DELETING THE PLUGIN I CANNOT GAIN ACCESS.

1.31 – 30/07/2025

  • minor code fixes

1.30 – 26/03/2025

  • security fixes

1.29 – 28/02/2025

  • Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) registration fix
  • math captcha bug fix

1.28 – 21/02/2025

  • improved math captcha security
  • math captcha now printed inline to avoid direct php file request getting blocked by some firewalls
  • 200k active installs

1.27 – 23/01/2025

  • fixed password reset form error message

1.26 – 16/12/2024

  • increased randomness of recovery URL

1.25 – 22/10/2024

  • reCAPTCHA v3 minimum score is now 0.5

1.24 – 17/10/2024

  • Jetpack compatibility fix
  • comment form captcha bug fix

1.23 – 02/10/2024

  • security fixes
  • added wp_login_form() support

1.22 – 30/06/2024

  • minor security fix

= 1.21 – 13/04/2024
* reCAPTCHA validation request error handling fix

= 1.20 – 13/03/2024
* double slash on images bug fix

= 1.19 – 04/02/2024
* fixed reCAPTCHA bug sometimes preventing checkout form re-submission after form errors are corrected in Woo

= 1.18 – 24/01/2024
* minor bug fix for Buddypress

1.17 – 09/12/2023

  • security/fatal error fix

1.16 – 05/12/2023

  • Woo registration fix

1.15 – 30/11/2023

  • Woo compatibility fixes

1.14 – 19/11/2023

  • Theme My Login and Woo compatibility fixes

1.13 – 16/11/2023

  • compatibility fixes

1.12 – 02/11/2023

  • small bug fixes for Woo

1.11 – 01/11/2023

  • small bug fixes

1.1 – 31/10/2023

  • new GUI
  • new features
  • introduced the PRO version

1.0.15 – 29 May 2023

  • Update packages

1.0.14 – 20 Feb 2023

  • Fix PHP 8 issue

1.0.13 – 15 Dec 2022

  • Fix admin links

1.0.12 – 2 Nov 2022

  • Add option for Woo checkout

1.0.11 – 17 Oct 2022

  • Fix Woo reset password
  • Minor bug fixes

1.0.10 – 10 Oct 2022

  • Minor bug fixes

1.0.9 – 26 Jul 2022

  • Fix WooCommerce checkout registration
  • Minor bug fixes

1.0.8 – 26 May 2022

  • Minor bug fixes

1.0.7 – 6 May 2022

  • Minor bug fixes

1.0.6 – 23 Apr 2022

  • Minor bug fixes

1.0.5 – 22 Apr 2022

  • Minor bug fixes

1.0.4 – 31 Jan 2022

  • Minor bug fixes

1.0.3 – 15 Jul 2021

  • Update links
  • Minor bug fixes

1.0.2 – 13 Jun 2021

  • Minor bug fixes

1.0.1 – 12 May 2021

  • Admin style updated
  • Documentation and other important links added

1.0.0 – 10 Mar 2021

  • Initial release
  • Version:Version: 1.31
  • Active installs:Active installs: 200K
  • Last updated:Last updated: 2 months ago
  • Requires:Requires: 4.9
  • Tested:Tested: 6.8.2
Average rating:4.8 out of 5 stars.
  • Number of ratings: 396 ratings
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