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
- Create a Joomla Contact and add that contact to the menu.
- From the Joomla Admin menu, select Site > Global Configuration > Site (tab).
- From the Default Captcha list, select Captcha – ReCaptcha.
- Click Save & Close.
- From the Joomla Admin menu, select Entensions > Plugin Manager.
- Click on the Captcha – ReCaptcha plugin to open it.
- From the Status list, select Enabled.
- In the Basic Options area, enter a Public and Private key.
– 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.
- Optional You can specify different themes for the captcha.
- Click Save & Close to save the changes to the Captcha – ReCaptcha plugin.Pages: Page 1 Page 2
hianta says
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
I have never tried that but I assumed it you turned on captcha for Joomla, the captcha would appear on all forms.
Pierre says
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
Strange. The captcha works well for me.
Mike Farrell says
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.
Raul says
Thanks it work fine for me!