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Last updated: February 28, 2018





Recently I started to get a lot of spam bot signup on my Tips and Tricks HQ forum. This forum is powered by bbPress so I started to look for a bbPress plugin that would enable reCAPTCHA on the forum registration page to stop these bot signups. Sadly the one plugin that I did find wouldn’t work on my site. So I wrote my own bbPress reCaptcha plugin.

Plugin Description

The bbCaptcha plugin adds reCAPTCHA to the registration page of your bbPress forum.

reCAPTCHA to bbPress registration

Installation & Usage

  1. Unzip and Upload the folder ‘bb-captcha’ to the ‘my-plugins’ directory.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in bbPress.
  3. Go to Settings menu of bbCaptcha plugin and add the reCAPTCHA keys. You can get reCAPTCHA keys here if you don’t have it already for your site.
Activating bbCaptcha Plugin
bbCaptcha Settings

This Plugin in Action

You can see this plugin in action on the registration page of the Tips and Tricks HQ Forum.

Download Latest Version

Download the Plugin.



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Comments (6 responses)

  1. Trena Pellitteri says:
    July 8, 2011 at 9:48 am

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  2. Lattesttech says:
    April 24, 2011 at 5:56 am

    thanks for sharing.. really nice…

  3. Lubomir says:
    August 2, 2010 at 11:18 am

    Good plug-in. But I think it is always better to do some kind of captcha of your own, because the most famous and public things are always the first to be cracked. But when the bot sees something that is different and unknown he panics 😛

  4. Ayush Kumar says:
    July 19, 2010 at 8:56 am

    Awesome buddy, I too get lot of spam comment. However I installed a plugin that filters spam but still sometime i need to spend time on this. This Captcha will surely minimize spam comment, I am gonna installed it on my Wrestling site: http://www.allwrestlingfan.com 🙂

  5. Kimberly Castleberry says:
    July 18, 2010 at 7:32 am

    Thanks for this! This will definitely help cut down on the spam bot registrations!

  6. Robert says:
    July 16, 2010 at 10:14 pm

    Hi there, I had the same problem too on my website. Just installed your plugin and it’s working fine. Thank you so much for this great plugin.