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How to Use Joomla 2.5 Contact Form Captcha

February 17, 2012 by Pat Fortino

The native Captcha Recaptcha is a great addition to Joomla 2.5.1. In the past, to get captcha spam protection on your Joomla Contact form, you had to install and configure a captcha plugin or extension or install a form extension. With Joomla 2.5.1, you can quickly add Captcha – ReCaptcha to the Joomla contact form.

To add Captcha – ReCaptcha to the Joomla contact form

  1. Create a Joomla Contact and add that contact to the menu.
  2. From the Joomla Admin menu, select Site > Global Configuration > Site (tab).
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  3. From the Default Captcha list, select Captcha – ReCaptcha.
  4. Click Save & Close.
  5. From the Joomla Admin menu, select Entensions > Plugin Manager.
  6. Click on the Captcha – ReCaptcha plugin to open it.
  7. From the Status list, select Enabled.
  8. In the Basic Options area, enter a Public and Private key.captcha-public-private-key-joomla
    – To get a public and private key, go to http://recaptcha.net and generate the public and private keys.
    – You will need a Google account to create captcha keys. If you have one, sign in; if you don’t have a Google account, create one and then sign in.
    captcha-public-private-keys
  9. Optional You can specify different themes for the captcha.
  10. Click Save & Close to save the changes to the Captcha – ReCaptcha plugin.
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  1. hianta says

    January 16, 2013 at 3:19 pm

    how to put captcha on offline page? joomla 2.5 its still under maintenance but I want superuser to access it, so superuser login but i want captcha.

    • Pat Fortino says

      January 16, 2013 at 5:11 pm

      I have never tried that but I assumed it you turned on captcha for Joomla, the captcha would appear on all forms.

  2. Pierre says

    January 27, 2013 at 4:38 pm

    Unfortunately Captcha has been negated by spammers. We need to have the Contacts form in “Public”, but it seems the bots are winning.

    • Pat Fortino says

      January 29, 2013 at 7:39 am

      Strange. The captcha works well for me.

  3. Mike Farrell says

    February 16, 2013 at 2:30 pm

    This article was very helpful. I had no idea that captcha was built into Joomla. This article help me to enable it and configure it.

  4. Raul says

    July 4, 2013 at 5:06 am

    Thanks it work fine for me!

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