To prevent bot submissions on your Contact Form 7, a simple CAPTCHA integration is a must. Luckily, the Essential Addons for Contact Form 7 plugin offers a fun and effective solution: the Math CAPTCHA Challenge. This interactive feature asks users to solve a simple math problem, making it much harder for bots to bypass.
This guide will help you understand and implement the match captcha in Contact Form 7.
Make sure you have installed both Contact Form 7 & Essential Addons Contact Form 7 plugins inside your WordPress.
Enable Math Captcha
You must enable Math Captcha before implementing the Math Captcha challenge in Contact Form 7. To do that, follow the below steps:
- Navigate to the Contact Form 7 menu.
- Essential Addons.
- From the Fields tab enable the Math Captcha.
Add Math Captcha
To implement the Math Captcha in your contact form follow the below steps:
- Navigate to any existing form or create a new one.
- Add the “Math Captcha” tag where you want to display it in your form.
Configure Math Captcha
After clicking the Math Captcha tag a new popup window will appear. Here you can configure & customize the Math Captcha settings.
- Field Type: Tick or untick whether you want to mark it as required or not.
- Field Name: Usually the name field is auto-generated. You can add custom value if required.
- Class Attribute: Enter custom class attribute if needed.
- Display: Select whether you want to display the Match Captcha field Inline or as a Block.
Click the Insert Tag button once the configuration is done.
- The customized tag will be added to your form editing panel.
- Save Changes.
Embed the Shortcode
- Copy & Paste the shortcode inside your page or post to display the form.
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