Plugin info

Total downloads: 5,987
Active installs: 1,000
Total reviews: 3
Average rating: 4.3
Support threads opened: 1
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 2 language(s)
Contributors: 2
Last updated: 9/12/2025 (108 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 4/19/2024 (1 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 5.0
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: 7.4

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Maintained • Last updated 108 days ago • Support resolved 0% • 3 reviews

42/100

Is Captcha by Yandex for Contact Form 7 abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 108 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 5.0
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: 7.4

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Description

Yandex Captcha protects you against spam and other types of automated abuse. With Contact Form 7’s Yandex Captcha integration module, you can block abusive form submissions by spam bots.

Using of a 3rd Party or external service

This plugin uses Yandex SmartCaptcha service for its main functionality. Please read terms of use

To implement the main plugin functionality, this plugin makes remote requests to yandex smart captcha service (https://smartcaptcha.yandexcloud.net) within three cases:
– to check yandex captcha sitekey validity
– to load captcha challenge
– to check a solving result

Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

  1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/captcha-by-yandex-for-contact-form-7 directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
  3. Go to Contact form 7 plugin integration page
  4. Setup site key and server key from yandex cloud
  5. Open the contact form and press Yandex captcha tag button to add captcha in your form

Frequently Asked Questions

Where I can get my site key and server key

Open console.cloud.yandex.ru login, add Yandex SmartCaptcha service and generate your keys

How to hide captcha from customers

When you add yandex captcha into your form, please check Use invisible captcha

How to init captcha with delay

Trigger custom event to init captcha. See this example

window.addEventListener(‘DOMContentLoaded’, function() {
document.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent(‘cfycInitEvent’));
});

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Screenshots

  1. There is a configuration page placed

    There is a configuration page placed

  2. What configuration block looks like

    What configuration block looks like

  3. How to place captcha into contact form

    How to place captcha into contact form

  4. Captcha settings

    Captcha settings

  5. Captcha frontend view

    Captcha frontend view

  6. When the system suspects you

    When the system suspects you

  7. Just captcha block

    Just captcha block

  8. Just captcha block in russian

    Just captcha block in russian

Changelog

1.2.5

  • Fix Bedroсk compatibility

1.2.4

  • Fix validator.w3.org error into

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form>

1.2.3

  • Fix other init captcha error

1.2.1

  • Fix error init captcha
  • Fix duplicate class attribute

1.2.0

  • Update for CF7 new tag generator version 2
  • Add custom event for custom init
  • Check WP 6.8.1 compatibility

1.1.1

  • Fix error when submit is button instead of input
  • Check WP 6.7.1 compatibility

1.1.0

  • Refactor captcha loading
  • Fix load a few captchas on one page
  • Execute invisible captcha only on submitting (on page load was before)

1.0.4

  • Add blueprint
  • Fix author name like my other plugins

1.0.3

  • Update code due deploy review

1.0.2

Fix wp codex issue
Allows using few forms in one page

1.0.1

Reduce php version to 7.4
Fix verify captcha on some cases

1.0.0

  • Basic functionality released.