How to Stop Spam with a CAPTCHA in Jetonomy

How to stop spam with a CAPTCHA in Jetonomy, step by step: open the Anti-Spam tab, choose Google reCAPTCHA v3 or Cloudflare Turnstile, paste the Site Key and Secret Key, set the reCAPTCHA score threshold, check the daily limits on new accounts, and save.

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In this tutorial you will turn on a CAPTCHA in Jetonomy, to keep bots from posting in your community. You need the free Jetonomy plugin, an administrator account, and a Google reCAPTCHA or Cloudflare Turnstile account. It takes about three minutes. There are six steps. Open Anti-Spam. Choose a provider. Paste your two keys. Set the score for reCAPTCHA. Check the limits on new accounts. Then save. Step one. Open Anti-Spam. In your WordPress admin, open Jetonomy, then Settings, then the Anti-Spam tab. The CAPTCHA protects the post and reply forms from bots. Members at trust level two and above are never checked, so your regulars notice nothing. Step two. Choose a provider. The Provider list starts on Disabled, which means no CAPTCHA at all. The two choices are Google reCAPTCHA version three, which is invisible, and Cloudflare Turnstile, the privacy friendly one. Step three. Paste your two keys. Your provider gives you a Site Key and a Secret Key. The links under the Site Key field open the page where each provider hands them out. Paste the Site Key into the first field, and the Secret Key into the second. The secret is stored on your site and never shown to visitors. You need a provider and both keys. With one of them missing, no CAPTCHA appears, and this tab shows a warning after you save. Step four. Set the score for reCAPTCHA. Choose Google reCAPTCHA, and one more row appears: Score Threshold. Google gives each visit a score. Anything below your number is treated as a bot. It starts at zero point five. A lower number lets more through, a higher one is stricter. Turnstile has no such setting. Step five. Check the limits on new accounts. A CAPTCHA is one layer. On the Permissions tab, Rate Limits for New Users caps what a level zero account can post, reply and vote in a day. So even a bot that gets past the CAPTCHA can only post a few times before it is stopped for the day. Step six. Save. Back on Anti-Spam, click Save Settings. Jetonomy then adds the check to the post and reply forms by itself. The same keys also guard the log in, sign-up and forgot password forms on the Jetonomy login card. That is all six. Anti-Spam opened, a provider chosen, both keys pasted, the reCAPTCHA score set, the limits on new accounts checked, and saved. Bots now have a much harder time reaching your community. Next in this series: Read the activity log.