Anyway to recaptcha registration page?

[websmith]

Hello everyone,
I am having a ton of spam registrations on my joomla 3.10.12 site. I would like to know if there is anyway to add a captcha to the registration page to keep bots out, or anything to make it harder for them to auto register.
I do not have the core recaptcha installed on my site. Not sure if its because it was upgraded over the years or what. I had google captcha 2.0, but that went way of the dinosaur, and I can't go 4.0 yet because it also has VM installed and custom code had been done. It will take a while to make this jump until I can confirm the coding will stay in tact.
So any help for the time being would be great. TIA

[Webdongle]

Found https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/recaptcha-v3/
Not tired it but you could try on a test site

[mtgg]

I am having a ton of spam registrations on my joomla 3.10.12 site. I would like to know if there is anyway to add a captcha to the registration page to keep bots out, or anything to make it harder for them to auto register.

There are extensions that can help make it harder for bots to register.

If bots have registered then adding a CAPTCHA to the login form will not achieve very much IMO. The bots that registered account may be trojan horses awaiting the approval of the accounts that they create and then the human beings who created the bots can login and do whatever a registered user can do whether you have CAPTCHA or no CAPTCHA software.

[Kubik-Rubik]

Hey Websmith,

There are still many spam protection extensions available for Joomla! 3.

Please check this category in JED: https://extensions.joomla.org/tags/captcha/

[Webdongle]

Oh didn't notice you are on j3. Reinstall core files then extensions discover. That should find it. But your Joomla is old you need to update.

[websmith]

I installed Hcaptcha, which works on the contact form page, but it doesn't show up on the registration page. When I asked hcaptcha support about this, they referred me back here.?

[gws]

I have used this for years on my J3 sites,it is the best of the bunch IMO.
https://www.richeyweb.com/joomla-extens ... ash-plugin

[Webdongle]

That's been under investigation for sometime
https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/hashcash/

This extension has been unpublished for the following reason:

UR7: Under Investigation

[gws]

You can ignore the under investigation, just a licensing issue same as Fabrik and many other common extensions.

[siyaco]

Being a beginer i would like to say something

Yes, you can add reCAPTCHA to your registration page in Joomla. Here’s how:

• Enable reCAPTCHA Plugin: Go to Extensions > Plugins and enable the "Captcha - reCAPTCHA" plugin.
  Get reCAPTCHA Keys: Sign up on the Google reCAPTCHA site to get your site key and secret key.
  Configure reCAPTCHA in Joomla: Go to System > Global Configuration > Site tab > Default Captcha, and select "Captcha - reCAPTCHA". Enter your site key and secret key.

This will add reCAPTCHA to your registration form and help prevent spam.

[AMurray]

hcaptcha is developed by @pe7er (a member of this forum) (I think).

[mtgg]

See the documentation about how to use Google reCAPTCHA with the registration form: https://docs.joomla.org/J3.x:Google_ReCaptcha

When I asked hcaptcha support about this, they referred me back here?

That's interesting, isn't it?

[webmasterab]

I installed Hcaptcha, which works on the contact form page, but it doesn't show up on the registration page. When I asked hcaptcha support about this, they referred me back here.?

Have you also set it in the options?

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[stutteringp0et]

I have used this for years on my J3 sites,it is the best of the bunch IMO.
https://www.richeyweb.com/joomla-extens ... ash-plugin

I just updated it for j5. Fixing all of the JED unpublished nonsense.