Google Recaptcha in the Listivo Theme

Block spam sign-ups and form submissions with reCAPTCHA v3. This shows where the theme's own reCAPTCHA switch lives in the Listivo Panel and where the same Google keys go in Contact Form 7.

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In the Listivo Theme, you can use reCAPTCHA v3 — the newest version released by Google.

Why reCAPTCHA v3

reCAPTCHA v3 is customer-friendly. It allows you to verify whether an interaction is legitimate without any user interaction. It is a pure JavaScript API returning a score, giving you the ability to take action in the context of your site: for instance, requiring additional factors of authentication, sending a post to moderation, or throttling bots that may be scraping content.

reCAPTCHA uses an advanced risk analysis engine and adaptive challenges to keep malicious software from engaging in abusive activities on your website. Meanwhile, legitimate users will be able to log in, make purchases, view pages, or create accounts, and fake users will be blocked.

Enable reCAPTCHA in the Listivo Panel

You can enable the Google reCAPTCHA in the Listivo Panel.

The ReCaptcha tab of Listivo Panel > User Panel in WordPress admin, with Enabled ticked, empty Site Key and Secret Key fields, a link for creating a new reCAPTCHA v3, and the Save Changes button

Enable reCAPTCHA in Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 has its own reCAPTCHA

The Listivo Theme uses the Contact Form 7 plugin, and that plugin carries its own reCAPTCHA setting. Just like the Listivo Theme, it uses reCAPTCHA v3, so it needs the keys entered separately.

To enable it, move to the WordPress admin screen and open the Contact > Integration page on your website. You will see a box titled reCAPTCHA there. Click Setup Integration in the box.

The Contact > Integration page in WordPress admin, showing a Stripe box above a highlighted reCAPTCHA box with its Setup Integration button

It will display input fields Site Key and Secret Key. Copy-paste the two keys you received from Google into the fields, and click Save Changes.

The expanded reCAPTCHA box in Contact Form 7 with empty Site Key and Secret Key fields highlighted above the Save Changes button

That’s it. Your website now uses reCAPTCHA’s score to verify whether a form submission comes from a human or a spam bot.

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