LaughterOnWater

Raptcha is an innovative CAPTCHA alternative that challenges users to count animals in a dynamic image, promoting accessibility and user engagement. Unlike text-based CAPTCHAs, it uses engaging visuals (cats, dogs, birds) with randomized placements and scales for enhanced security.
Key features:
<ul>
<li>Animal Counting Challenges: Randomized images with 1-10 animals, ensuring varied difficulty.</li>
<li>Bot Detection Heuristics: Advanced checks (drag time, mouse distance, focus duration) to prevent automated submissions.</li>
<li>Form Integrations: Native support for WordPress comments, login forms, and popular plugins (Contact Form 7, Kadence Forms, Ninja Forms).</li>
<li>Shortcode Integration: Easily embed with <code>[raptcha]</code> for custom forms.</li>
<li>Fully Secured: Nonce verification, transients for challenge storage, and sanitization throughout.</li>
</ul>
This plugin prioritizes privacy, security and usability, making it a in-house, private, modern alternative to traditional CAPTCHAs.

Raptcha


It works as advertised. That said I would love 2 extra features to be added:



1. For at least the Comments form, or any form to that matter the Raptcha should not appear for logged in users.



2. We need support for the Log in/out core block when the block is configured to be displayed as a form and not as just a link. It would be great for the themes that use the Log in/out block in their footers. At this point, the Raptcha does not appear and even if you have entered the correct credentials it loads the actual WP login page and you have to go through the login process again.



Great job and thank you for this plugin.


Absolutely a Five Star Plugin !

A secure, animal-based CAPTCHA for WordPress forms featuring intelligent bot detection and multi-form integrations.

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GEO Metrics AI Traffic Monitor turns your raw server and WordPress logs into actionable intelligence about AI bot traffic. In a world where ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity crawl billions of pages to power their answers, knowing whether those bots visit your site — and what they read — is a new SEO frontier.
The plugin works out of the box with zero configuration. It reads your existing <code>debug.log</code>, access logs, and PHP error logs, identifies AI crawlers by their User-Agent string, and displays a clean analytics dashboard inside your WordPress admin.
<h4>What you get</h4>
<ul>
<li>AI Bot Dashboard — KPI cards for total requests, AI bot visits, distinct bots detected, and the active date range. Visual trend chart broken down per bot per day. Donut chart of bot share.</li>
<li>Bot Details tab — per-bot breakdown with company grouping (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta…), bot type (crawler / agent / search / researcher), top pages visited, and HTTP status distribution.</li>
<li>Log Viewer tab — raw log lines with syntax highlighting, live refresh via AJAX, and per-event type/severity filtering.</li>
<li>Live Traffic capture — the plugin writes its own <code>live.log</code> (no server log access needed), capturing every frontend, REST API, and AJAX request in Combined Log Format, with automatic 5 MB rotation.</li>
<li>Date range filter — filter all dashboard data by custom date range or quick presets (Last 7 days, Last 30 days, etc.).</li>
<li>WP-Cron sync — automatic parsing on a configurable schedule (Hourly / Every 6 hours / Twice daily / Daily).</li>
<li>Data retention — configurable retention period (default 30 days) with automatic purge.</li>
<li>Proxy-aware IP detection — optional trust of <code>X-Forwarded-For</code> / <code>CF-Connecting-IP</code> headers for sites behind Cloudflare or a reverse proxy.</li>
<li>GEO Metrics — visit <a href="https://trygeometrics.com" rel="nofollow ugc">trygeometrics.com</a> for cross-site AI traffic aggregation and visibility scoring across your entire brand.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Detected bots (40+)</h4>
Organized by company:
<ul>
<li>OpenAI — GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, OAI-AdsBot</li>
<li>Anthropic — ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot, anthropic-ai</li>
<li>Google — Googlebot, Google-Extended, Gemini, Google-Agent, Google-CloudVertexBot, GoogleOther, Google-NotebookLM</li>
<li>Microsoft — bingbot</li>
<li>Perplexity — PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, DuckAssistBot</li>
<li>Meta — Meta-ExternalAgent, Meta-ExternalFetcher, Meta-WebIndexer</li>
<li>xAI — GrokBot</li>
<li>Mistral AI — MistralAI-User</li>
<li>ByteDance — Bytespider, TikTokSpider</li>
<li>Apple — Applebot</li>
<li>Amazon — Amazonbot</li>
<li>Cohere — cohere-ai</li>
<li>You.com — YouBot</li>
<li>DuckDuckGo — DuckDuckBot</li>
<li>Common Crawl / Research — CCBot, AI2Bot</li>
<li>SEO tools — AhrefsBot, AhrefsSiteAudit, SemrushBot, DotBot, Barkrowler, DataForSeoBot, ScreamingFrog</li>
<li>Other search engines — BaiduSpider, Yandexbot, Naverbot, ShapBot</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy</h4>
The plugin reads log files already stored on your server. It does not set cookies, collect personal data from visitors, or make any external HTTP requests. Raw log lines are never stored in the WordPress database — only aggregated counts and parsed metadata are persisted.
<h4>Source log support</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress <code>debug.log</code> (WP_DEBUG_LOG)</li>
<li>PHP <code>error_log</code> (auto-detected from <code>php.ini</code>)</li>
<li>Plugin-owned live traffic log (zero-config, works on any host)</li>
<li>Web server access log (optional path in Settings)</li>
<li>Up to 3 custom log paths</li>
</ul>

GEO Metrics AI Traffic Monitor

Know which AI crawlers visit your site, how often, and what they read. Zero-config bot detection from your existing WordPress logs.

Raptcha vs GEO Metrics AI Traffic Monitor