WordPress Login ReCAPTCHA Plugin

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This WordPress plugin will add reCAPTCHA to login page. Why use reCAPTCHA instead of other CAPTCHA? Because reCAPTCHA is a powerful CAPTCHA.

Screenshot :

Wordpress Login reCAPTCHA — WordPress Login reCAPTCHA

Installation :

You should register on reCAPTCHA site first.
Go to your wp-admin page, check under “Settings” menu.
There is a “WP Login reCAPTCHA” menu.

Menu (WordPress Login reCAPTCHA)

Click that link and set your reCAPTCHA public key and private key.

WordPress Login reCAPTCHA

Do not enter wrong public and private keys.

To download the plugin, go to official WordPress.org plugin page, and click “Download” link there :
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-login-recaptcha/

Enjoy this plugin. 😀

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68 responses to “WordPress Login ReCAPTCHA Plugin”

June 25, 2010

VManu

plugin must be installed first…
After we’ve got the keys where we write them on plugin????
I can’t find any instructions.
Regards

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June 25, 2010

Ze Povinho

I’ve installed and activated but, where we put the keys ….

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June 26, 2010

Xrvel

@VManu and Ze Povinho : you cand set the keys on your wp-admin after you have installed WP-reCAPTCHA plugin. I have put more instruction above 🙂

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June 29, 2010

mp

ada contoh codingnya ?? 😮

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June 29, 2010

erwin

why do you need recatcha when trying to login into your site?
is it recatcha more for user registration or password request?

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1. July 12, 2010
  
  Sean
  
  To stop people trying to use software to try over and over to get your login details.
  
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June 29, 2010

Xrvel

@mp : halo pak, lihat di API reCAPTCHA nya 🙂

@erwin : do you know there are bots (script / software) that can try to login to your website automatically? Without CAPTCHA, bots can try to login to your site. Do you want your admin page to be broken?

Therefore IMHO you should put CAPTCHA in your login form.
CAPTCHA defeats that kind of bots.

Yes, on user registration and password request pages actually CAPTCHA is needed too 🙂

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July 10, 2010

Teguh Aditya

sekarang recaptha udah di akusi oleh gugel

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1. July 12, 2010
  
  Xrvel
  
  @Teguh Aditya : Yoi bener banget 🙂
  
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August 9, 2010

Guest

this plugin wordpress 3.0.1 not working!!!

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1. August 11, 2010
  
  Xrvel
  
  Hi there..
  
  My current blog runs on 3.0.1 and this plugin is working.
  
  Can you specify what did you mean with “not working”?
  
  Have you installed WP-reCAPTCHA plugin first? 🙂
  Have you entered the correct reCAPTCHA Public & Private keys? 🙂
  
  Let me know and i will help.
  
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September 9, 2010

Mega Sale

1st I want to thanks for this great addon.

I’ve install the login reCAPCHA plugins,
but somehow my website using classipress themes.
it does have custom login page so the login reCAPCHA does not appear on the login page.
How can I manually add the reCAPCHA to that custom login form?
thanks.

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1. September 9, 2010
  
  Xrvel
  
  Hi Mega Sale.
  
  You should know the place of the custom login page, and open the wp-login-recaptcha.php file, next add a line after this line
  
  add_action(‘login_form’,’xrvel_login_recaptcha_form’);
  
  Example of added line :
  add_action(‘custom_login_form’,’xrvel_login_recaptcha_form’);
  
  So it will become
  
  add_action(‘login_form’,’xrvel_login_recaptcha_form’);
  add_action(‘custom_login_form’,’xrvel_login_recaptcha_form’);
  
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September 12, 2010

choky

apa sih kode verifikasi itu?jd ngebungin z,

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1. September 12, 2010
  
  Xrvel
  
  Pada umumnya kode verifikasi diperlukan untuk menghindari serangan bot / robot / orang “jahat”. 🙂
  
  Nah salah satu bentuk kode verifikasi adalah dengan gambar, seperti yang ada di reCAPTCHA.
  
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September 13, 2010

rabby

I installed this and I can’t login to my dashboard anymore.

?login_recaptcha_err=2

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1. September 13, 2010
  
  Xrvel
  
  Hello Rabby,
  
  Okay it happens because :
  1) you entered wrong captcha guess, or
  2) you have not entered (have not configured) reCAPTCHA API key / Secret
  3) you entered wrong reCAPTCHA API key / Secret
  
  You should reconfigure your reCAPTCHA option from admin page.
  
  To disable the login reCAPTCHA plugin, from your file manager, open wp-login-recaptcha.php file in your plugin directory.
  Next, find this line.
  
  define('XRVEL_LOGIN_RECAPTCHA_ENABLED', true);
  
  Change it into
  
  define('XRVEL_LOGIN_RECAPTCHA_ENABLED', false);
  
  Save it. Now the reCAPTCHA is disabled on login page.
  
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September 16, 2010

Karlmarx

Genuinely great plugin. I have been looking for a way to add Recaptcha to my login page for a while to increase security.

I experienced a glitch however – an incompatibility or poor interaction between this plugin, WP ReCaptcha and Dagon Design Form Mailer ( http://tinyurl.com/errsu ). The result is that the form generated by the form-mailer is not visible. This means I cannot run both together. Given I rely on the form mailer I have had to disable WP Recaptcha and Login Recaptcha for now, which has fixed the problem. Perhaps both this and the form-mailer calling ReCaptcha is generating the problem? Any suggestions welcome.

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September 24, 2010

Francisco Salinas

love it, use it!

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November 20, 2010

CMSSeeker

Hi Xrvel,
why not make this plugin to work with comment form and registration? All-in-one captcha plugin can save server resources. There would be no need to seek other plugins.

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1. November 20, 2010
  
  Xrvel
  
  Hi there,
  
  reCAPTCHA for comment form and registration are already included on normal WP-reCAPTCHA plugin 🙂
  
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November 27, 2010

Mr.XYZ

Xrvel, bro nice plugin, tapi kok setelah wa install, terus wa aktifin , gk ada menu baru buat setting plugin recapta, di menu setting or menu yang laen? ok thx

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1. November 29, 2010
  
  Xrvel
  
  Halo.. Harus install plugin WP-Recaptcha dulu 🙂
  Install dari sini http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-recaptcha/
  
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  1. December 31, 2011
    
    Top PC Tablets
    
    thanks bro…
    Nice Plugin
    
    Reply
December 5, 2010

SSC

I love you man, handling the 200 article submitssions daily was hard, and spammers happly added the recaptcha while they registered, hopefully recaptcha on login form will reduce the spam even more. If you should develop a recaptcha for publish that’d be even more awesome!

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1. December 8, 2010
  
  Xrvel
  
  Hi SSC. I am glad that you like it 🙂
  
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December 23, 2010

marvC

Is therer any way to “resize” the width of the captcha box for the login page? As you can see on my site it extends far beyond the default width of the login form.
Any assistance is appreciated. Great work on the plugin.

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1. December 31, 2010
  
  Xrvel
  
  I think it is not possible because the width is set by reCAPTCHA server (reCAPTCHA library). 🙂
  
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January 18, 2011

Steve

Any way to make this work with buddypress? The sidebar login form does not show the CAPTCHA form nor does the user registration. Any ideas on how to make this work? Thanks.

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February 25, 2011

jojomonkey

First, this plugin is great and I appreciate the hard work and contribution.
I’ve been using it and it has been working great.

However, just today I noticed I can’t login w/ Chrome simply because Chrome is choosing NOT to render the captcha login box. It doesn’t want to render the captcha comment boxes either (so the issue is not only w/ Login Recaptcha but w/ WP-Recaptcha plugin too). The captcha code is there when I do a view-source but the box is NOT rendered in Chrome. Firefox on the other hand doesn’t have a problem.
Wondering if anyone has ever seen this before.

Same issue as these guys here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-recaptcha-recaptcha-does-not-work-on-google-chrome?replies=2#post-1962945

WP 3.1
Latest Captcha plugins
Chrome 10 beta

Thanks!

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1. February 25, 2011
  
  Xrvel
  
  Hi there,
  
  Thanks for the report. I just tried that on this blog, i can see reCAPTCHA on comment box (i have just installed wp-reCAPTCHA again).
  I am using WP 3.1, latest wp-reCAPTCHA plugin, and chrome 7.
  
  Thanks.
  
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  1. February 26, 2011
    
    jojomonkey
    
    yeah – i’m going to have to try another version of Chrome. It’s def. NOT a problem w/ the plugins – but something is up w/ Chrome.
    Even the captcha on this site below is NOT showing up in my Chrome. Take a look at this screenshot. Chrome window has no Captcha above ‘Post Comment’ even though the ‘view-source’ window has Captcha in the code. Firefox window on right is perfect.
    http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/4746/sscaptcha.png
    
    Also, Have cleared out all browsing history on my Chrome and the usual stuff – didn’t help. Weird.
    
    Thanks.
    
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    1. February 26, 2011
      
      jojomonkey
      
      AH!
      
      It was due to ‘Disconnect’ extension on Chrome.
      DOH! Working again.
      
      ref: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jeoacafpbcihiomhlakheieifhpjdfeo
      
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      1. February 26, 2011
        
        Xrvel
        
        I am glad that it works again 🙂 I was thinking that it was caused by some browser extension to..
    2. March 14, 2012
      
      Fadel SAWI
      
      Wow Recapcha on WordPress Login.
      
      Reply
March 13, 2011

Don

Just plugged it into my WP site and worked right off. Amazing what can be done if one just reads the directions!

None the less, I searched around a little but can’t seem to locate how to change the color of the captcha after installation. So maybe I’m not so smart after all 😀 As you can see from my blog here http://www.ExcelREI.com, the colors just don’t seem to work.

Any help you can offer would be great. Thanks for helping to eliminate at least one headache for me. Don

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1. March 14, 2011
  
  Xrvel
  
  Hi Don.
  
  Thanks for dropping by. I just added an option to change the reCAPTCHA color. Please update your plugin to the latest version 🙂
  
  Kurniawan.
  
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April 10, 2011

Kumpulan Berita Terbaru

Wow,,, Baru tau kalo ada Recaptcha… Thanks infonya gan

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April 18, 2011

Random Health

Yihaa…., bisa mengamankan security nih, mater thengkyu kang mas

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April 22, 2011

Pekok Gaya Weblog

Wah thank mas,, Cocok nih buat ngelindungin dari Spammer

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April 24, 2011

connectwww

After the update my login page shows
“Latest reCAPTCHA plugin must be installed and activated first”

i m using latest reCAPTCHA plugin

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1. April 26, 2011
  
  Xrvel
  
  Thanks for the notice. I’ve just updated the plugin to version 0.1.4 🙂
  Please update the login recaptcha plugin.
  
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  1. April 27, 2011
    
    connectwww
    
    Thanks xrvel
    Now working
    thanks once again
    
    Reply
April 29, 2011

Guest

Hi,
I’m also using Classipress and tried to add the code suggested by you to Mega Sale

add_action(‘login_form’,’xrvel_login_recaptcha_form’);
add_action(‘custom_login_form’,’xrvel_login_recaptcha_form’);

I could’nt understand the location of the custom login page to replace with custom_login_form. The custom Login page location is
themes/classi/includes/theme-login.php
So please tell me how the add_action(‘custom_login_form’,’xrvel_login_recaptcha_form’); should look like.

Thank you.

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May 27, 2011

Bob

I was testing recaptcha on my local host and applied for my API codes from there. Are these codes the same or do I need to reapply for new ones although I used the same 2bretired.com when I applied for them.

Thanks Bob

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1. May 28, 2011
  
  Xrvel
  
  Hi Bob,
  
  It’s just the same code. Just copy the same API code.
  
  Xrvel.
  
  Reply
July 16, 2011

Mahesh

Nice plugin.Thnks………………

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November 18, 2011

dsaasas

re-captcha plugins doesnt work if we enter only 1 word out of 2 words…. as i entered only 1 word here

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December 3, 2011

munawir

mas gambar captcha saya tidak mau muncul ada pesan error kaya gini
[25-Nov-2011 04:46:46] PHP Warning: imagefontheight() expects parameter 1 to be long, string given in /home/hidecom/public_html/includes/libs/animatedcaptcha.class.php on line 236
[25-Nov-2011 04:46:46] PHP Warning: imagefontwidth() expects parameter 1 to be long, string given in /home/hidecom/public_html/includes/libs/animatedcaptcha.class.php on line 272
[25-Nov-2011 04:46:46] PHP Warning: imagefontwidth() expects parameter 1 to be long, string given in /home/hidecom/public_html/includes/libs/animatedcaptcha.class.php on line 274

tolong mas bantuanx

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December 21, 2011

Download Android Apps

wow, nice.
I’m use it in my blogs.
it’s very usefull

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January 6, 2012

Joseph

Very nice plugin my friend! I wish it were integrated into WP-reCAPTCHA so we could stop more annoying hack attempts & spam together. =)

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January 12, 2012

John

Seem to be a great plugging so well done. My problem is the log gin page takes 30-40 second to load. The username and password field appear immediately but the reCAPTCHA take, what feels like, forever.

Any suggestions?

Many thanks
—
John

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January 13, 2012

Android APK

Matur suwun bro… bisa di coba nih plugin

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November 2, 2012

Spark PC – Dave

Excellent WordPress plug-in, if you start making consistent updates and more security bugs reportable with fixed logs of bugs previous reported, being included within the plug-in’s package, I will start DONATING as often as you make considerable advances in the program. Possibly one of the best WordPress plugin available out the, especially for free-ninety free.

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November 10, 2013

qby

Hi, I installed the plugin and it seems to be working fine – thank you for it!
Although when I tested it severel times, it still let me log in to the site if I only missed 1 character. It only rejects the login attempt with at least 2 faild characters. Is this on purpuse?
Thanks!

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1. November 15, 2013
  
  Xrvel
  
  I believe it is the nature of recaptcha, 1 or 2 incorrect letters are accepted. 🙂
  
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November 19, 2014

KCLO

Hi,
After the latest update from WP-reCAPTCHA, your wonderful Login reCAPTCHA plugin had ceased to work.

Pls help !

tks.

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1. November 21, 2014
  
  Xrvel
  
  Thank you, it’s been fixed on latest update.
  
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December 3, 2014

mishu

Hello,

I can confirm that the latest version stopped working. From what I see in your options, saved as xrvel_login_recaptcha_options, I only had the theme but you are relying on the fact that the keys are there also.

You also have the recaptcha options above, in the variable $ropt but you are not using them in any way.

I got the captcha to appear again by adding something like
if (empty($opt['secret']) && !empty($ropt['secret'])) { $opt = array_merge($opt, $ropt); $opt['secret_key'] = $opt['secret']; }

but now I am getting the error message “Please pass reCAPTCHA verification” even if it’s this new type of captcha, that simulates a checkbox.

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1. December 5, 2014
  
  Xrvel
  
  Hello.
  
  Do you use custom login box / it is the default wordpress login page such as
  http://www.example.com/wp-login.php ?
  Have you tried the latest version 2.0.2 ?
  
  Thank you
  
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December 7, 2014

Bjarne

Can you add recaptcha for other forms (registration)?

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1. December 7, 2014
  
  Xrvel
  
  Sorry this plugin only adds reCAPTCHA to wordpress default login page.
  
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March 20, 2015

Amit

Hi,
I’m using jarida wordpress theme. I want to add reCaptcha to login widget in sidebar. Right now i am using Captcha plugin but this plugin not full fill my requirement.

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1. March 22, 2015
  
  Xrvel
  
  At this moment only normal login page is supported. 🙂
  
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April 21, 2015

Anon

Sadly, after the update to WordPress 4.x.x every login attempt using this plugin fails. I have deactivated most other plugins to no avail (except Jetpack, Akismet).

I’m sorry I can’t provide you with more info and maybe this is just a solitary case. Maybe not and you can find a way to fix it.

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February 9, 2016

Giri

Hi Xrvel
Please include the feature of adding recaptcha for registration page as well , to make plugin complete.

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April 4, 2019

Ebv

Hi! I’m using this plugin and now I can’t login in my WordPress site because it appears an ERROR.

I change this line: define(‘XRVEL_LOGIN_RECAPTCHA_ENABLED’, true);
and modify it into define(‘XRVEL_LOGIN_RECAPTCHA_ENABLED’, false); but I’t doesn’t work, the error continues in the login page (/wp-login.php). Can someone help me? Thanks!

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