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Advanced Google reCAPTCHA

By WebFactory
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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

Screenshots

  • Login form
  • Registration form
  • Reset Password form
  • Comment form
  • BuddyPress form
  • EDD Registration form
  • EDD Login form
  • WooCommerce Login and Registration form
  • Plugin settings

Installation

  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.

FAQ

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.

Reviews

Great Plugin

erismanos November 30, 2025
Everything is fine, just the first login was in loop because the system send a key as password which can find on url that receive to change the password!! Strange! If you try to enter your password, then you will be in a constant loop that the login is invalid!Nice to have in the future: the option to add a signature or extra details in the footer of the login page.

Wouldn’t work

wplogin12 September 16, 2025
Would not work at all

No support for translations

infofabio September 3, 2025
The sentence “Are you a human? Please solve:” only in english is not functional to sites in other languages.

Didn’t work

supakwai August 31, 2025
The plugin won’t verify my Captcha keys.Error: An undocumented error has occurred. Please refresh the page and try again.

Didn’t work

fufy August 8, 2025
reCAPTCHA shown but even the checkbox is not ticked it allows user to login anyway. The reCAPTCHA seems to appear only for decoration but not linked to the login checking.

Didn’t work

madukdiver 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
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Contributors & Developers

“Advanced Google reCAPTCHA” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors
  • WebFactory

“Advanced Google reCAPTCHA” has been translated into 19 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Changelog

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

Meta

  • Version 1.31
  • Last updated 4 months ago
  • Active installations 200,000+
  • WordPress version 4.9 or higher
  • Tested up to 6.8.3
  • PHP version 5.2 or higher
  • Languages

    Czech, Dutch, Dutch (Belgium), English (Australia), English (Canada), English (US), French (France), Galician, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Nepali, Persian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish (Chile), Spanish (Spain), Swedish, and Turkish.

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Ratings

4.8 out of 5 stars.
  • 398 5-star reviews 5 stars 398
  • 8 4-star reviews 4 stars 8
  • 1 3-star review 3 stars 1
  • 1 2-star review 2 stars 1
  • 19 1-star reviews 1 star 19

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Contributors

  • WebFactory

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Issues resolved in last two months:

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