<h2><b>Protect your Website with Google reCAPTCHA</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Stop spam, fake registrations, and bot-driven attacks before they reach your website. With our WooCommerce reCAPTCHA plugin, you can easily add Google reCAPTCHA to key areas of your store, including login, registration, password reset, checkout, and comments. You also have the flexibility to place reCAPTCHA anywhere on your site using a simple shortcode.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">The plugin supports both Google reCAPTCHA v2 and v3 (Invisible), giving you full control over how you want to protect your site. With Invisible reCAPTCHA v3, the challenge only appears when activity seems suspicious, keeping your genuine customers free from interruptions while blocking malicious traffic.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">In a time when spam and hacking attempts are on the rise, this plugin adds a strong layer of protection. It prevents bots from fake logins, fraudulent checkouts, card testing, password resets, and comment spam, helping you secure your revenue and maintain customer trust.</span></p>
<h3><b>Features of the WooCommerce reCAPTCHA Plugin</b></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Supports Google reCAPTCHA v2 (visible) and v3 (invisible)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Exclude specific countries, IP addresses, and user roles</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Enable reCAPTCHA on WordPress pages: </span>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Login Page</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Registration Page</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Lost Password Page</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Comments Section</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Enable reCAPTCHA on WooCommerce pages </span>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Login Page</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Registration Page</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Lost Password Page</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Checkout (Guest and Logged-In checkout pages)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Pay for Order Page</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Product Reviews</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Customize per page: Field Title, Theme (Light/Dark), Size (Normal/Compact)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Add reCAPTCHA anywhere using shortcode</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Configure WordPress and WooCommerce pages separately</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Provides seamless protection without disrupting genuine users</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><b>Supports Google reCAPTCHA V2 and V3</b></h3>
<h4><span style="font-weight: 400">With Google reCAPTCHA for WooCommerce, you can secure your store using both V2 and V3 protection. The V2 reCAPTCHA displays a visible challenge for all users, while the V3 version runs invisibly in the background and only appears when suspicious activity is detected, ensuring genuine customers enjoy a smooth shopping experience.<br />
<strong>V2 Google reCaptcha Example:</strong></span></h4>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734005635195 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot-from-2025-08-18-12-03-39.png" alt="" width="1134" height="545" /></p>
<h4><span style="font-weight: 400"><strong>V3 Google reCaptcha Example:</strong></span></h4>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734005635213 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot-from-2025-08-18-12-08-57.png" alt="" width="1317" height="457" /></p>
<h3><b>Add reCAPTCHA to WordPress Pages</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Enable reCAPTCHA on key WordPress pages, including login, registration, lost password, and comment forms. Customize the display options to match your site’s needs and safeguard against spam, bots, and fake signups.</span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734005635250 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image_d94600.png" alt="" width="1636" height="855" /></p>
<h3><b>Enable reCAPTCHA on WooCommerce Pages</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Protect essential WooCommerce pages such as login, registration, lost password, guest checkout, logged-in checkout, pay for order, and product reviews. Each page can be customized separately, ensuring strong security without disrupting the customer experience.</span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734005635253 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image-1.png" alt="" width="1705" height="973" /></p>
<h3><b>Customize reCAPTCHA for WordPress and WooCommerce Pages</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Gain full control over how and where reCAPTCHA appears on your website. Adjust settings for each page individually, including:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Enable or disable reCAPTCHA</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Set a custom field title</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Choose between light and dark themes</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Select size: normal or compact</span></li>
</ul>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734005635255 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image-2.png" alt="" width="1675" height="393" /></p>
<h3><b>Add reCAPTCHA Using Shortcode</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Secure any form page on your website by placing the shortcode [fme_recaptcha]. This gives you the flexibility to add Google reCAPTCHA beyond default WordPress and WooCommerce pages, ensuring site-wide protection wherever it’s needed.</span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734005635256 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image-3.png" alt="" width="765" height="444" /></p>

Google reCaptcha Integration

<p>Secure your website against spam and bot attacks by integrating reCAPTCHA into your WordPress and WooCommerce checkout, login, registration, and other key pages.</p>

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<h2>Key Benefits</h2>
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<li><strong>Stop Fraud Before Payment</strong> – Block fraudulent orders at checkout before any money changes hands</li>
<li><strong>100% Local — No External APIs</strong> – All fraud checks run on your server. No data leaves your site, no third-party dependencies, no per-transaction fees</li>
<li><strong>Flexible Response Actions</strong> – Block suspicious orders outright, place them on hold for review, or flag them for attention — your rules, your call</li>
<li><strong>Intelligent Risk Scoring</strong> – Automatic fraud detection with disposable email detection, IP tracking, country mismatch analysis, and more</li>
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<h2>Main Features</h2>
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<li><strong>Custom Blocking Rules</strong> – Create rules targeting emails, domains, phones, IPs, countries, addresses, names, payment methods, and shipping methods</li>
<li><strong>4 Matching Modes</strong> – Exact match, contains, wildcard patterns, and full regex support</li>
<li><strong>Automatic Risk Scoring</strong> – 6 configurable risk signals with adjustable weights and thresholds</li>
<li><strong>Classic & Blocks Checkout</strong> – Full protection for both WooCommerce checkout experiences</li>
<li><strong>Order Risk Metabox</strong> – Color-coded risk badges, scores, and detailed risk factors on every order</li>
<li><strong>Complete Audit Trail</strong> – Every fraud check logged with context, action, trigger, score, and metadata</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce Analytics Integration</strong> – Security Logs report directly in the WooCommerce Analytics dashboard</li>
<li><strong>GDPR & Privacy Ready</strong> – Built-in privacy policy integration with transparent data handling</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Rule-Based Blocking</h3>
<p>Build your own defense with powerful, flexible rules. Target orders by email address, domain, phone number, IP address, country, city, postcode, billing or shipping address, customer name, payment method, or shipping method. Choose from exact match, contains, wildcard, or regex matching. Set rules to block, hold, or flag — and add expiration dates for temporary rules.</p>
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<h3>Intelligent Risk Scoring</h3>
<p>Every order is automatically assessed against six configurable risk signals: disposable email detection, IP reputation tracking, billing/shipping country mismatch, suspicious address keywords, new account age, and high-value order thresholds. Each signal has an adjustable weight, and you set the thresholds that determine whether an order is blocked, held, or flagged.</p>
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<h3>Real-Time Checkout Protection</h3>
<p>Shop Defender intercepts fraudulent orders at the earliest possible moment — before payment is processed. Full support for both the classic WooCommerce checkout and the newer WooCommerce Blocks checkout. When an order is blocked, draft orders are automatically cleaned up and the customer sees your customizable error message.</p>
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<h3>Order Risk Assessment</h3>
<p>Every order gets a detailed risk assessment stored as metadata. A dedicated metabox on the order page shows a color-coded badge (blocked, on hold, flagged, or low risk), a visual risk score bar, and a breakdown of every risk factor that contributed to the score. Optionally display a fraud risk column directly on the orders list.</p>
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<h2>How It Works</h2>
<ol>
<li><strong>Install & Activate</strong> – Upload the plugin and activate it alongside WooCommerce</li>
<li><strong>Enable Protection</strong> – Navigate to WooCommerce > Settings > Advanced > Shop Defender and enable the plugin</li>
<li><strong>Configure Risk Thresholds</strong> – Adjust signal weights and set your block/hold score thresholds</li>
<li><strong>Create Rules (Optional)</strong> – Add custom rules for known bad actors, risky domains, or suspicious patterns</li>
<li><strong>Monitor & Review</strong> – Review flagged orders, check risk scores, and refine your rules using the audit log</li>
</ol>
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<h2>Comprehensive Rule Types</h2>
<p>Target fraud from every angle:</p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li><strong>Email & Domain</strong> – Block specific addresses or entire domains (e.g., *@disposable.com)</li>
<li><strong>Phone Number</strong> – Normalized matching strips formatting differences automatically</li>
<li><strong>IP Address</strong> – Block known bad IPs with exact or pattern matching</li>
<li><strong>Country, State, City & Postcode</strong> – Geographic restrictions for billing and shipping</li>
<li><strong>Billing & Shipping Address</strong> – Catch suspicious address patterns like PO boxes</li>
<li><strong>Customer Name</strong> – Block known fraudulent names with case-insensitive matching</li>
<li><strong>Payment Method</strong> – Restrict specific payment methods for flagged contexts</li>
<li><strong>Shipping Method</strong> – Route orders based on chosen shipping options</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Configurable Risk Signals</h2>
<p>Fine-tune fraud detection with six adjustable signals:</p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li><strong>Disposable Email Detection</strong> – Bundled database of 5,000+ known disposable email domains (default: +30 points)</li>
<li><strong>Failed IP Tracking</strong> – Flag IPs with a history of blocked orders in a configurable lookback period (default: +20 points)</li>
<li><strong>Country Mismatch</strong> – Detect when billing and shipping countries differ (default: +15 points)</li>
<li><strong>Suspicious Address Keywords</strong> – Configurable keyword list for risky address patterns like PO boxes (default: +10 points)</li>
<li><strong>New Account Detection</strong> – Flag orders from recently created accounts (default: +10 points, configurable age threshold)</li>
<li><strong>High-Value Order Alerts</strong> – Extra scrutiny for orders above a configurable amount (default: +15 points, $300 threshold)</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Three Response Actions</h2>
<p>Choose the right response for every situation:</p>
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<li><strong>Block</strong> – Hard deny at checkout. Payment is never processed. The customer sees your customizable error message. Draft orders are automatically deleted.</li>
<li><strong>Hold</strong> – The order is placed on hold for manual review. An admin note is added with full risk details. You decide whether to approve or cancel.</li>
<li><strong>Flag</strong> – The order completes normally but is marked with a warning. A note and risk score are attached for your review when fulfilling.</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Complete Audit Trail</h2>
<p>Every fraud check is logged for accountability and analysis:</p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li><strong>Full Context Logging</strong> – Context (checkout, order), action taken, trigger type (rule or heuristic), risk score, and metadata</li>
<li><strong>Advanced Filtering</strong> – Filter logs by context, action, email, IP address, or order ID</li>
<li><strong>Automatic Retention</strong> – Daily WP-Cron task prunes logs older than your configured retention period (default: 90 days)</li>
<li><strong>Analytics Integration</strong> – Access a dedicated Security Logs report in WooCommerce > Analytics with date filtering and sorting</li>
<li><strong>Manual Management</strong> – Delete specific log entries or prune by age at any time</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Powerful Admin Interface</h2>
<p>Everything you need, right inside WooCommerce:</p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li><strong>Modern React UI</strong> – Fast, responsive settings interface built with WordPress components</li>
<li><strong>Risk Metabox</strong> – Color-coded badges, visual score bars, and risk factor breakdowns on every order</li>
<li><strong>Orders List Column</strong> – Optional fraud risk column with risk level badges and scores</li>
<li><strong>Customizable Messages</strong> – Edit the customer-facing block message and admin hold note templates</li>
<li><strong>Capability-Based Access</strong> – Configure which user role can manage Shop Defender settings</li>
<li><strong>Debug Mode</strong> – Enable detailed logging to the WooCommerce debug log for troubleshooting</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Privacy & GDPR Compliance</h2>
<p>Transparent data handling built into the core:</p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li><strong>Privacy Policy Integration</strong> – Automatic suggested privacy policy text added to WordPress Privacy settings</li>
<li><strong>Local Processing Only</strong> – No data sent to external services. All checks run entirely on your server.</li>
<li><strong>Configurable Retention</strong> – Set how long logs are kept (1–365 days) with automatic daily cleanup</li>
<li><strong>Data Transparency</strong> – Clear documentation of what data is collected, why, and how long it is stored</li>
<li><strong>Clean Uninstall</strong> – Optional removal of all plugin data (tables, options, order metadata) on uninstall</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Seamless Integration</h2>
<p>Works with your existing WooCommerce setup:</p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li><strong>WooCommerce HPOS</strong> – Fully compatible with High-Performance Order Storage</li>
<li><strong>Classic & Blocks Checkout</strong> – Full protection for both checkout experiences</li>
<li><strong>Multisite Ready</strong> – Per-site rule and log isolation on WordPress multisite networks</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce Analytics</strong> – Dedicated Security Logs report in the Analytics dashboard</li>
<li><strong>REST API</strong> – Full CRUD API for rules, logs, and settings for programmatic management</li>
<li><strong>Developer Hooks</strong> – Actions and filters to extend fraud decisions, risk signals, and disposable domain lists</li>
<li><strong>Any Theme</strong> – Admin-only plugin with no frontend output — works with any theme</li>
</ul>

Shop Defender

<p>Stop losing revenue to fraudulent orders and chargebacks. Shop Defender catches bad actors before payment is processed — using custom rules, intelligent risk scoring, and disposable email detection — all running locally on your server with no third-party fees or data sharing.</p>

Google reCaptcha Integration vs Shop Defender