Web Engineer

Web-Engine Sentry is a plugin that offers protection for comments, administrative login, and form submissions. While it won’t prevent human submissions, its primary objective is to make it challenging for automated programs to access your site.
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This is a privacy-first plugin – no tracking or personal data is collected by our servers, beyond that necessary to account for your usage and authenticate you as a user.
This plugin utilizes the web-engine cloud services to generate challenges for your users to solve. This service offers a limited free service and will require registration to utilize.
The free option will allow you to test the service and assess its potential benefits for your organization. Each time a Captcha is successfully solved, a “credit” is charged. Pay as you go for what you use only and contribute fairly to maintaining the platform.
Please note that the basic Captchas generated for free outside the initial free credit can be easily solved by AI within a second. We strongly recommend upgrading to the paid service, which will generate more robust challenges providing enhanced protection and enabling our ongoing product development.
Our objective is to provide an intuitive and high-quality service.
Web-Engine Sentry has been thoroughly tested with the following plugins:
<ul>
<li>Elementor</li>
<li>Contact Form 7</li>
<li>WPForms</li>
<li>Jetpack</li>
<li>Gutena Forms</li>
<li>WooCommerce (Login, register and checkout forms)</li>
</ul>

Web-Engine Sentry

Web-Engine Sentry - Secure your login, forms, and comments.

Takayuki Miyoshi

Really Simple CAPTCHA does not work alone and is intended to work with other plugins. It is originally created for <a href="https://contactform7.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Contact Form 7</a>, however, you can use it with your own plugin.
Note: This product is “really simple” as its name suggests, i.e., it is not strongly secure. If you need perfect security, you should try other solutions.
<h4>How does it work?</h4>
Really Simple CAPTCHA does not use PHP “Sessions” for storing states, unlike many other PHP CAPTCHA solutions, but stores them as temporary files. This allows you to embed it into WordPress without worrying about conflicts.
When you generate a CAPTCHA, Really Simple CAPTCHA creates two files for it; one is an image file of CAPTCHA, and the other is a text file which stores the correct answer to the CAPTCHA.
The two files have the same (random) prefix in their file names, for example, “a7hk3ux8p.png” and “a7hk3ux8p.txt.” In this case, for example, when the respondent answers “K5GF” as an answer to the “a7hk3ux8p.png” image, then Really Simple CAPTCHA calculates hash of “K5GF” and tests it against the hash stored in the “a7hk3ux8p.txt” file. If the two match, the answer is confirmed as correct.
<h4>How to use with your plugin</h4>
Note: Below are instructions for plugin developers.
First, create an instance of ReallySimpleCaptcha class:
<pre><code>$captcha_instance = new ReallySimpleCaptcha();
</code></pre>
You can change the instance variables as you wish.
<pre><code>// Change the background color of CAPTCHA image to black
$captcha_instance->bg = array( 0, 0, 0 );
</code></pre>
See really-simple-captcha.php if you are interested in other variables.
Generate a random word for CAPTCHA.
<pre><code>$word = $captcha_instance->generate_random_word();
</code></pre>
Generate an image file and a corresponding text file in the temporary directory.
<pre><code>$prefix = wp_rand();
$captcha_instance->generate_image( $prefix, $word );
</code></pre>
Then, show the image and get an answer from respondent.
Check the correctness of the answer.
<pre><code>$correct = $captcha_instance->check( $prefix, $the_answer_from_respondent );
</code></pre>
If the $correct is true, go ahead. Otherwise, block the respondent — as it would appear not to be human.
And last, remove the temporary image and text files, as they are no longer in use.
<pre><code>$captcha_instance->remove( $prefix );
</code></pre>
That’s all.
If you wish to see a live sample of this, you can try <a href="https://contactform7.com/captcha/" rel="nofollow ugc">Contact Form 7</a>.

Really Simple CAPTCHA

Needed this for an installation with custom forms. I used the plugin developers instructions and was able to make a fully custom implementation based on server side validation within 30 minutes. No more spam bots misusing the forms. Thank you!

Great work - easy to implement

Really Simple CAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA module intended to be called from other plugins. It is originally created for my Contact Form 7 plugin.

Web-Engine Sentry vs Really Simple CAPTCHA