Friendly Captcha for
Joomla
Joomla is an award-winning content management system that provides a powerful tool for building websites and powerful online applications. Enhance your Joomla website's security with the Joomla captcha for Friendly Captcha. Block spam and bots, protect privacy, and ensure an easy integration.
Field of application/
Backend
Tired of clicking on cars?
Friendly Captcha is the user-friendly way to stop spam and bots - no labeling needed.
Get rid of annoying labeling tasks. Make spam protection easy and privacy compliant.
Happy users, increased conversion rates
With Friendly Captcha no user tasks are needed. It runs automatically in the background.
Fully accessible and WCAG compliant
Don’t exclude any users, Friendly Captcha is entirely barrier-free.
Privacy compliant with GDPR, CCPA, LGPD and PIPL
Friendly Captcha protects users’ privacy at the highest level of data protection.
European servers for maximum data protection
Ensure that your customers’ personal data remains in the EU.
The Joomla Captcha
How the integration works
1.
Create a Friendly Captcha account
Creating an account is completely free, all you need is a valid email address and you’re ready to go. Choose a plan that covers your needs. The first 30 days are free of charge.
2.
Create an 'Application' to get a sitekey
Create an application in the Friendly Captcha dashboard to get a sitekey for your integration, as shown in the screenshot below.
3.
Create an API key to interact with the API
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.
4.
Complete your billing details
To ensure that your account remains functional after the 30-day trial period, make sure to enter your billing information in the Friendly Captcha dashboard.
You can adjust and cancel your Friendly Captcha plan online at any time.
5.
Install the Friendly Captcha plugin in Joomla
6.
Connect Friendly Captcha with Joomla
To finish the integration, access the Friendly Captcha plugin settings in Joomla and paste the Sitekey generated in step 2 and the API key generated in step 3 into the respective fields.
The Friendly Captcha widget will appear in your Joomla frontend.
FAQs
A Joomla CAPTCHA is a bot protection solution built into Joomla websites that verifies that form submissions and other interactions are being made by human beings and not automated bots. It plays a crucial role in protecting your Joomla site from spam and abuse by ensuring that only legitimate activity is processed. While traditional CAPTCHA providers such as Google reCAPTCHA typically make people click on traffic lights, modern CAPTCHA providers such as Friendly Captcha opt for an invisible, non-intrusive background challenge.
Friendly Captcha for Joomla works with an invisible background challenge to distinguish between humans and bots. This proof-of-work approach automatically validates user interactions on the server side without requiring any extra effort from your visitors.
Friendly Captcha is the best CAPTCHA for Joomla projects and forms due to its unobtrusive, privacy-centric design and robust security features. Its invisible verification method provides effective bot protection while maintaining a seamless user experience. In addition, Friendly Captcha is fully accessible to everyone.
Yes, you need a Joomla CAPTCHA. All Joomla websites that process user data, offer registration, contact forms, newsletter subscriptions or work with payment information can protect their website from automated bot attacks, spam and credential stuffing attacks with a CAPTCHA. A modern Joomla CAPTCHA like the one from Friendly Captcha is especially user-friendly because it is completely accessible and offers a high level of security.
Using a CAPTCHA in your Joomla environment helps ensure that only genuine user interactions are processed, reducing spam and protecting sensitive information. This proactive security measure enhances the credibility and reliability of your Joomla website, building greater trust with your audience.
Integrating Friendly Captcha into your Joomla forms is easy: install the Friendly Captcha SDK for Joomla, configure your API credentials in the backend, and add the provided widget code to your forms. Detailed documentation is available to assist you throughout the process.
Yes, modern CAPTCHA solutions like Friendly Captcha make accessibility a top priority. By handling verification through background challenges instead of visible, complex image recognition challenges (Google reCAPTCHA) or behavior-based data tracking (invisible reCAPTCHA), it ensures that all users can interact with your Joomla site without barriers.
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