Add a privacy-friendly WordPress CAPTCHA by Friendly Captcha to your website or app in less than 5 minutes – no image puzzles, no user tracking, fully privacy compliant bot protection.
In this step-by-step tutorial, Aaron shows you exactly how to integrate Friendly Captcha into WordPress. Whether you’re protecting a contact form, a login page, or a registration flow, this guide walks you through the entire setup from scratch.
Tired of traditional CAPTCHAs that frustrate your visitors or compromise their privacy? Friendly Captcha’s invisible proof-of-work technology blocks bots invisibly in the background, without ever interrupting real users.
**What you’ll learn:**
– How to find and install the Friendly Captcha WordPress plugin
– How to create and configure your Friendly Captcha API keys
– How to protect contact forms, login pages & sign-up flows from spam bots and automated attacks
– How to test your CAPTCHA integration before going live
⏱ Chapters
00:00 – Introduction – What is Friendly Captcha?
00:17 – Start in WordPress (e.g. AirBnB for Cats)
00:28 – Signup to Friendly Captcha and get started with a free or commercial plan
01:06 – Login to Friendly Captcha’s dashboard and create a new application
01:45 – Get your sitekey and generate your unique API key
02:15 – Go to your WordPress dashboard and install the Friendly Captcha plugin for WordPress
02:40 – Configure Friendly Captcha in WordPress
02:55 – Enable Friendly Captcha for login forms and enable Friendly Captcha v2
03:10 – Check your CAPTCHA integration in your frontend
03:24 – See Friendly Captcha directly in WordPress and other WordPress plugins supported by Friendly Captcha
Friendly Captcha also works with WooCommerce, Contact Form 7, WPForms, and more.