reCaptcha by BestWebSoft
Protect WordPress website forms from spam entries with Google reCAPTCHA.
3.9(390 reviews)
·100K+ active installs·Updated 1 month agoAs of April 2026, reCaptcha by BestWebSoft is a WordPress captha plugin with 100K+ active installations and a 3.9/5 rating from 390 reviews. It has been downloaded 6.6M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 7% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: VM Testimonials Plus.
3.9/5390 reviews
100K+active installs
0%resolved
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
reCaptcha plugin is an effective security solution that protects your WordPress website forms from spam entries while letting real people pass through with ease. It can be used for login, registration, password recovery, comments, popular contact forms, and other. reCAPTCHA Version 3, Version 2, Invisible are included.
Users are required to confirm that they are not a robot before the form can be submitted. It’s easy for people and hard for bots.
Free Features
- Add reCaptcha to:
- Registration form
- Login form
- Reset password form
- Protected post password form
- Comments form
- Contact Form
- Testimonials
- Login & Register Form
- Custom form
- Hide reCaptcha for the allowlisted IP addresses
- Disable the submit button
- Validity check of keys in admin panel
- Available reCaptcha themes…
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Ratings & Reviews
3.9390 reviews
5 ★
266
4 ★
15
3 ★
12
2 ★
16
1 ★
81
Recent Reviews
DOES NOT WORK
by rosterdotcom·1 month ago·1 reply
Enabled for Login a Registrations and spam registrations are still happening. This plugin is useless.
Unfortunately doesn’t work.
by wplogin12·2 months ago·1 reply
Have not been able to get this to work, especially on login and register pages.
QA failure
by Joe·8 months ago·1 reply
Version 1.82 crashed, caused problems, then in version V.83 they wrote Bugfix: Fixed the issue that this was a serious glitch, lack of reliability
It does exactly what it says
by danielepais·1 year ago
Fantastic plugin that can be placed on any page or post via shortcode. Highly useful.
Great Plugin
by ocassoc·1 year ago·1 reply
Great piece of software. Solves the bot issue.
Download Trends
Today: 571Yesterday: 736This week: 5KPeriod total: 641K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.5+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
Other
38.4%
v1.86
35.8%
v1.85
11.1%
v1.80
7.6%
v1.84
7.1%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
V1.86 – 24.02.2026
- Pro : The new compatibility with Easy Digital Downloads has been added.
- NEW : The Force Strong Passwords functionality has been added.
- Update : BWS Panel section was updated.
- Bugfix : Minor bugs fixed.
- Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 6.9.1.
Contributors
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