Contao CMS CAPTCHA
Why Choose Friendly Captcha for Contao Open Source CMS?
Don't make your users click on cars. Switch to a modern, invisible Contao CMS CAPTCHA.
User-Friendly
Friendly Captcha does not require any tasks from your users. It runs automatically in the background.
Fully Accessible
Don’t lock out your real users. Friendly Captcha is fully accessible and officially certified as WCAG 2.2 AA compliant gold standard.
Privacy-First
Friendly Captcha protects your users’ privacy and is compliant with GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, and more.
Easy to Integrate
Ready to use with Contao’s Form Generator, member management, and custom Symfony bundles.
Protect Your Contao CMS Site Against Threats
Bot protection for Contao CMS. Trusted by developers worldwide.
Credential stuffing, spam bots, and automated form abuse can severely impact your Contao website’s reliability and reputation. From newsletter sign-ups to contact inquiries and member registrations, unprotected forms become easy targets for malicious scripts and automated attacks.
Friendly Captcha delivers intelligent bot detection that operates completely invisibly for your legitimate visitors. Our Contao CAPTCHA leverages cryptographic challenges to differentiate between real users and bots without tracking, HTTP cookies, or privacy concerns. Safeguard your Contao forms, back end access, and member areas with a privacy-first Contao CAPTCHA.
How the Contao CMS CAPTCHA Integration Works
Create a Friendly Captcha account
Create your Friendly Captcha account for free to get started with Contao Open Source CMS CAPTCHA integration. Pick a plan that fits your needs and enjoy a 30-day free trial.
Log in and create an application
Create an application in the Friendly Captcha dashboard to get a sitekey for your Contao CMS integration, as shown in the screenshot below.
Create an API key for your application
Create an API key in the Friendly Captcha dashboard, as shown in the screenshot below.
Please make sure to copy and save the API key as you can only access it once.
Install the Friendly Captcha plugin in Contao CMS
Connect Friendly Captcha with Contao CMS
To finish the CAPTCHA integration, access the Friendly Captcha plugin settings in Contao CMS and paste the sitekey generated in step 2 and the API key generated in step 3 into the respective fields.
Your Contao CMS application is protected with Friendly Captcha.
FAQ
A Contao CMS CAPTCHA is a security feature integrated into the content management system to prevent spam, automated form submissions, and malicious bot activity on websites. It acts as a gatekeeper, distinguishing between human users and automated bots. Traditional Contao CMS CAPTCHAs require interaction (like solving a puzzle or clicking a button) before allowing submissions. Modern Contao CMS CAPTCHA solutions like Friendly Captcha offer an invisible challenge that does not disrupt your users’ flow.
Friendly Captcha is a popular, privacy-focused, and user-friendly, non-visual captcha, often used in modern Contao versions
Based on modern, privacy-first, and user-friendly requirements, Friendly Captcha is considered the best CAPTCHA solution for Contao CMS. It is favored for being GDPR-compliant, invisible to users (no image clicking), and fully accessible (WCAG 2.2 AA compliant).
To verify that the integration is working properly, check out this step-by-step manual from our support website.
Friendly Captcha offers packages for any size of business based on the number of puzzle requests. You can find our plans and pricing models here.
Yes, absolutely. In order to get started, you can create a Friendly Captcha account here and take advantage of a 30-day trial period.
Create a Friendly Captcha account here and get a free 30 day trial. Then share the link to the Friendly Captcha documentation with your developer: developer.friendlycaptcha.com
Yes, Friendly Captcha is successfully used by a large variety of well-known corporations, governments and organizations. Contact us to learn more about our enterprise options.
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