Uber reCaptcha

A very useful plugin for everyone using WordPress. Adds reCaptcha security to the WordPress login form, register form and comment form. This plugin could help your blog get rid of a lot of spam comments or brute-force attacks.

Nothing gets passed it if the reCaptcha doesn’t validate.

A few notes about the plugin:

• Supports audio or image captcha types
• Can generate the reCaptcha image / audio type in a number of predefined languages
• Adds reCaptcha protection to the WordPress login form
• Adds reCaptcha protection to the WordPress register form
• Adds reCaptcha protection to the WordPress comment form
• Adds reCaptcha protection to the WordPress recover password form

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

1. Upload the whole contents of the folder uber-recaptcha to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Fill in your Site & Secret key, which you can get here: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/
4. Select the type of captcha you want: audio / image
5. Select where you’d want the reCaptcha form to be rendered: login, register or comment form
6. Enjoy a spam free blog & extra security for your back-end panel 🙂

1. 

   Back-end UI

1.1.5 – 10.07.2025

• Changed: Update tested up to

1.1.4 – 29.10.2023

• Fixed: PHP 8.x warnings ( #15 )
• Changed: Modernized checkbox inputs ( #17 )

1.1.3 – 10.01.2022

• Update texts to remove confusion about reCaptcha
• Update translation file
• Update texts to remove confusion about reCaptcha
• Update translation file

1.1.2

• Fix translation issues
• Update translation file

1.1.1

• Don’t show recaptcha errors if no public and private key.

1.1.0

• Added option to show reCaptcha to logged in users
• Actualize Google reCaptcha languages
• Added option to disable submit button before reCaptcha is validated
• Added invisible reCaptcha support
• Fixed reCaptcha on register and forgot password screen

1.0.6

• Made sure Uber Recaptcha works with https:// sites as well

1.0.5

• Re-worked the UI
• Fixed a bunch of notices
• Added branding
• Added more visible notice where you can get your reCaptcha keys
• Removed /admin/view and moved the content into settings.php
• Removed readme.md

1.0.4

• Fixed the reamde.md to display properly on the plugin page.

1.0.3

• Made sure plugin works with WP 4.5 and upwards.
• Removed UTF-8 incomptabile strings from the plugin name. This made the plugin name show up quirky on the wordpress.org plugin landing page.
• Centered the reCaptcha form on the login screen & recover/register password screens
• Changed the hook the reCaptcha form was using for being displayed on the comment form.
• Slightly re-worked the CSS so that the reCaptcha form is being nicely displayed/aligned with more themes.

1.0.2

• Fixed captcha comment not showing up on comment form where a hook was missing (only affected a couple of themes)

1.0.1

• Added reCaptcha on recover password form
• PHP 5.3.29 compatibility fix
• Minor other fixes

1.0.0

• Initial release