{"id":1945,"date":"2020-09-25T16:52:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T14:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2026-10-16T08:50:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T04:50:46","slug":"steps-for-adding-recaptcha-to-your-blog-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/steps-for-adding-recaptcha-to-your-blog-page\/","title":{"rendered":"STEPS FOR ADDING RECAPTCHA TO YOUR BLOG PAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article below will describe how to install the reCAPTCHA plugin to your WordPress blog page. This plugin is a free service provided by Google that protects your page against spam &amp; threats. It uses various techniques to tell humans apart from bots.<br><br>Before installing the plugin, make sure that you are the administrator of the page. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>To add CAPTCHA protection to your WordPress page, follow these steps:<\/strong><br><br>1) Firstly, you are going to have to log into your WordPress account as an administrator<br>2) Under dashboard, click &#8216;plugins&#8217; and then click &#8216;new&#8217;<br>3) Into your search bar, enter &#8216;CAPTCHA&#8217; <br>4) Search for the plugin<br>5) Look out for the Google CAPTCHA (reCAPTCHA) &amp; then click &#8216;install now&#8217; <br>6) Once the plugin has installed, under your dashboard, click the plugins tab &amp; then click on &#8216;installed plugins&#8217;<br>7) Once you have found the reCAPTCHA plugin, click &#8216;activate&#8217;<br>8) Click on the &#8216;settings&#8217; button<br><br>Once the plugin has been launched you have to create a public &amp; private key. In order to complete the next step, you have to click the authentication button.<br><br> <strong>Once that is completed, follow these steps below:<\/strong><br><br>1) Once the keys are received, type the public key text into the public key text box &amp; the private key text into the private key text box.<br>2) Once completed, under &#8216;options&#8217; click &#8216;save changes&#8217; <br>3) CAPTCHA should be activated once the steps above are completed. You can test it by going to your WordPress front page &amp; click the comment link. You will see the WordPress CAPTCHA in the submission form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article below will describe how to install the reCAPTCHA plugin to your WordPress blog page. This plugin is a free service&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hk_meta_description":"","hk_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[38,64,60],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-mailscanner","tag-spam","tag-wordpress","entry"],"hk_builder":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25069,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions\/25069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostking.host\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}