Title: Recaptcha login
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Recaptcha login

 *  Resolved [roywangf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roywangf/)
 * (@roywangf)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recaptcha-login-1/)
 * Hi there,
 * I’m not sure I understand something…I have a Google Recaptcha API key, but I 
   don’t see where to enable it (it says on the Challenge & Deny menu, but there’s
   nothing there, only for the second chance)
 * So when I go to the login page, I only see the arithmetic question. Or is this
   by design?
 * Can I add Google Recaptcha on the login via this plugin?
 * Thanks,
    Roy
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Keith P. Graham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kpgraham/)
 * (@kpgraham)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recaptcha-login-1/#post-6913099)
 * On the Challenge and Deny Stop Spammers configuration page there is a place to
   put the API keys. If you did it right, the google reCaptcha form will appear 
   under the API keys, but only on the configuration page.
 * Normal users will never see the reCaptcha form on comments, registration and 
   login. It is a “Second Chance” captcha.
 * Only users who were detected as possible spammers will see the second chance 
   captcha dialog. The login screen and the comment screen are not altered. After
   stop spammers thinks that it has a spammer it shows another screen with the captcha
   dialog. If the user passes that the comment will be posted or the user will be
   allowed to register or log in.
 * Good users should never see the captcha dialog. Robots and spammers will always
   see it.
 * The captcha screen is only there because there are occasional false positives
   and you don’t want to lock out good users.
 * Keith
 *  [sshanky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sshanky/)
 * (@sshanky)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recaptcha-login-1/#post-6913413)
 * Hi Keith,
 * I just found this plugin and it looks like it’s gonna be great. Thanks for writing
   and sharing it.
 * I wanted to chime in here as I had the same concern. Upon re-reading the notes,
   it does say that it will display the captcha “if a real user is blocked”. However,
   as a suggestion, maybe this could be made a bit clearer in the admin page. The
   section heading for the re-captcha does not say “second chance”, but some of 
   the other sections do. I think this is perhaps what led to my confusion. Also,
   the instructions say that we need to enable it on the challenge & deny menu to
   the left, even though that menu item leads to the same page. Would it make sense
   to change that to read something like, “If the recaptcha form looks good you 
   need to make sure ‘Google ReCaptcha’ is enabled in the ‘Second Chance Captcha
   Challenge’ section above.”?
 * Thanks again, and I hope this doesn’t sound like complaining. I’m just trying
   to help out.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Keith P. Graham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kpgraham/)
 * (@kpgraham)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recaptcha-login-1/#post-6913414)
 * sshanky,
 * I understand your concerns. I have them too. The plugin has grown organically
   to a complicated mess in the last 5 years. It has branched out all over the place,
   and no matter how I try to prune, it is still fairly disorganized.
 * The project is a hobby, makes no money, and I have many many more pressing things
   demanding my attention. I work on it a few hours a month, if that. Someday, I
   want to go back and fix up the inconsistencies if I can.
 * I have added your notes to my TODO.txt file and will try to get to them.
 * thanks,
    Keith

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 * [reCAPTCHA](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/recaptcha/)

 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Keith P. Graham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kpgraham/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recaptcha-login-1/#post-6913414)
 * Status: resolved