reCAPTCHA in WP comments form is an ANTISPAM tool that adds a Google reCAPTCHA to the comments form and protects your site from the spam robots threat …
As of April 2026, reCAPTCHA in WP comments form is a WordPress antispam plugin with 8.0K+ active installations and a 4.1/5 rating from 20 reviews. It has been downloaded 72K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 6 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 6% this week. Top alternative: Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection.
reCAPTCHA in WP comments form plugin is an ANTISPAM tool that adds the visible Google reCAPTCHA field inside the comments form of your WP theme when the user is not logged in preventing fraudulent or deceptive comments.
The plugin also introduces a second verification process that detects the unauthorized direct accesses by spam robots to the WP comments system and allows you to decide what do you want to do with those comments.
Finally, the plugin has got an optional forced javascript output mode that lets you to add a reCAPTCHA field also in old WP themes that didn’t use the new WP form comments functions but they make a direct output of its own comments form.
Basic Features
It does not work. When you hit the button, it gives a green check and passes everyone.
Tested on WordPress 5.6 and it worked perfectly fine
not working, the captcha wont appear and comments will be put into spam folder automatically after configuration is complete.
support questions in the last 2 years are unanswered as well, as we can see here. Wouldn’t bother with this plugin .
I’ve used this plugin for a few years and it worked great – until WP 5.5 when it caused the comments ‘submit’ button on my blog and theme to cease working. I’ve now deactivated it and found an alternative plugin and my readers can now post comments again.
Nice, simple and very helpful recaptcha!
| WordPress | 4.0.0+ requiredTested up to 5.1.22 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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