How do you set up the new reCAPTCHA?
Go to your manager, then to the Antispam section of the settings. Once there, click the sentence Enable the tick-box captcha on the site (reCAPTCHA, new version).
After selecting this feature, two keys are requested, with a link to the Google service: click here to go to the service that manages reCAPTCHA. Fill in the information like this:
- Label : the name of your site
- In the list of reCAPTCHA types, tick reCAPTCHA v2
- Domains : enter the address of your site here in the form "yoursitename.emyspot.com " or "yoursitename.com" (replace "yoursitename" with the name of your site followed by its own extension: .emyspot.com, .com, .eu, etc.). It is important NOT to use http:// or www.
- Tick the box to say that you accept the terms of service
- You can leave the second box ticked, to receive email alerts if an error is diagnosed or if a suspicious increase in traffic is reported.
- Click Save.
If you want to set up reCAPTCHA on several sites, just add the different domains in the Domains box below (one per line).
Which keys should you use?
After clicking Save, a new page appears with several keys and codes. To set up your site, only the first two keys matter: the site key and the secret key. The rest is built in.
Go back to the Antispam section of the settings, then copy the first key into the matching field, then the second. You can now save the settings. I suggest you test this feature, for example by posting a comment on one of your pages, to check that everything is set up properly.
If you have set up several domains for your reCAPTCHA, the keys are the same for the different sites.
And that's all! Nothing more: you are not asked to follow the "client side" and "server side" integration instructions, everything is already taken care of.
A little more information
As well as being more recent and nicer, Google's new reCAPTCHA brings new advantages. These changes mainly pay more attention to the security of your site. If the system is not sure that the user posting a message is a human rather than a spam robot, it asks the person to, for example, type a text or recognise a cat in a list of images.
Finally, this new system is much better suited to mobiles than the old one. When it asks you to click an image among others, you can validate the captcha with your finger on a phone screen.
