hCaptcha for WordPress

hCaptcha is a drop-in replacement for reCAPTCHA that puts user privacy first.

Need to keep out bots? hCaptcha protects privacy while offering better protection against spam and abuse. Help build a better web.

How hCaptcha Works

The purpose of a CAPTCHA is to distinguish between people and machines via a challenge-response test, and thus increase the cost of spamming or otherwise abusing websites by keeping out bots.

To use this plugin, install it and enter your sitekey and secret in the Settings -> hCaptcha menu after signing up on hCaptcha.com.

hCaptcha Free lets websites block bots and other forms of abuse via humanity challenges.

hCaptcha Pro goes beyond the free hCaptcha service with advanced machine learning to reduce the challenge rate, delivering high security and low friction along with more features like UI customization.

Privacy Notices

hCaptcha is designed to comply with privacy laws in every country, including GDPR, LGPD, CCPA, and more.

For example, hCaptcha has been certified under ISO 27001 and 27701 and is enrolled in the EU-US, UK-US, and Swiss-US Data Privacy Framework for GDPR compliance.

Details are available at www.hcaptcha.com/certifications and www.hcaptcha.com/gdpr.

With the default configuration, this plugin does not:

• track users by stealth;
• write any user’s personal data to the database;
• send any data to external servers;
• use cookies.

Once you activate this plugin, the hCaptcha-answering user’s IP address and browser data may be sent to the hCaptcha service on pages where you have activated hCaptcha protection. However, hCaptcha is designed to minimize data used, process it very close to the user, and rapidly discard it after analysis.

For more details, please see the hCaptcha privacy policy at:

• hCaptcha.com

If you enable the optional plugin-local statistics feature, the following additional data will be recorded to your database:

• counts of challenge verifications per form
• only if you enable this optional feature: the IP addresses challenged on each form

We recommend leaving IP recording off, which will make these statistics fully anonymous.

If this feature is enabled, anonymized statistics on your plugin configuration, not including any end user data, will also be sent to us. This lets us see which modules and features are being used and prioritize development for them accordingly.

Plugins, Themes and Forms Supported

• WordPress Login, Register, Lost Password, Comment, and Post/Page Password Forms
• ACF Extended Form
• Affiliates Login and Register Forms
• Asgaros Forum New Topic and Reply Form
• Avada Form
• Back In Stock Notifier Form
• bbPress New Topic and Reply Forms
• Beaver Builder Contact and Login Forms
• BuddyPress — Create Group and Registration Forms
• Classified Listing Contact, Login, Lost Password, and Listing Register Forms
• CoBlocks Form
• Colorlib Customizer Login, Lost Password, and Customizer Register Forms
• Contact Form 7
• Divi Comment, Contact, Email Optin and Login Forms
• Download Manager Form
• Droit Dark Mode
• Easy Digital Downloads Checkout, Login, Lost Password, and Register Forms
• Elementor Pro Form and Login Form
• Essential Addons for Elementor Login and Register Forms
• Fluent Forms
• Forminator Forms
• Formidable Forms
• GiveWP Form
• Gravity Forms
• Gravity Perks Nested Forms
• Jetpack Forms
• Kadence Form and Advanced Form
• LearnDash Login, Lost Password, and Register Forms
• Login/Signup Popup Login and Register Forms
• Mailchimp for WP Form
• MailPoet Form
• MemberPress Login and Register Forms
• Ninja Forms
• Otter Blocks Forms
• Paid Memberships Pro Checkout and Login Forms
• Passster Protection Form
• Profile Builder Login, Recover Password, and Register Forms
• Quform Forms
• Sendinblue Form
• Simple Download Monitor Form
• Simple Basic Contact Form
• Spectra — WordPress Gutenberg Blocks Form
• Subscriber Form
• Support Candy New Ticket Form
• Theme My Login — Login, Lost Password, and Register Form
• Ultimate Member Login, Lost Password, and Member Register Forms
• UsersWP Forgot Password, Login, and Register Forms
• WooCommerce Login, Registration, Lost Password, Checkout, and Order Tracking Forms
• WooCommerce Wishlist Form
• Wordfence Security Login Form
• Wordfence Login Security Login Form
• WP Dark Mode
• WP Job Openings Form
• WPForms Form
• wpDiscuz Comment and Support Forms
• wpForo New Topic and Reply Forms

Please note

NOTE: This is a community-developed plugin. Your PRs are welcome.

For feature requests and issue reports, please
open a pull request.

We also suggest emailing the authors of plugins you’d like to support hCaptcha: it will usually take them only an hour or two to add native support. This will simplify your use of hCaptcha, and is the best solution in the long run.

Some plugins listed have been superseded by native support, and are included only for legacy purposes.

You should always use native hCaptcha support if available for your plugin.
Please check with your plugin author if native support is not yet available.

Instructions for popular native integrations are below:

• WPForms native integration: instructions to enable hCaptcha