How to integrate reCaptcha to WCP Contact Form

Hi MarSim,

If you need to use reCaptcha you need go to the plugin settings Contact Form > Settings > Form tab > Fields Settings section. At the table with fields options you need to find field with “Captcha” type and change it to “reCaptcha” via dropdown in case if you use default form configuration. In case if you use own fields set you need to add field with “reCaptcha” type if you didn’t use “Captcha” field before. After saving plugin settings reCaptcha will be available on the site frontend.

You can find more additional information in the plugin documentation.

Please let us know if this information will help you.

with kind regards,
WebCodin WordPress Team

Hello WebCodin Team,
Thank you very much for your prompt answer, this is working now!
Is there a way to change the “I’m not a robot” text?
Thanks again.
Marc

Hi Marc,

reCaptcha is third-party library that provided by Google. Google do not provide ability to change reCaptcha text value (https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/display).

with kind regards,
WebCodin WordPress Team

Hello WebCodin Team,

Understood, thank you.

Two final comment/question:

1. I was able to control the style of the various fields by inserting the WCP shortcode in a div with the desired class taken from my WordPress CSS sheet.
2. Since I do not currently have a SMTP server installed on my VPS, no email is sent by the WCP Contact Form to say “[email protected]” or “[email protected]”. But thanks to the WCP’s Inbox page, I will be able to easily access the requests sent by my site’s visitors. That being said, am I right assuming that email notifications will be sent once a SMTP server is installed, in addition to the notifications sent to the WCP Inbox?

Thanks again.

Marc

Marc,

1) You can try to use some div with unique class or ID to styling customization, but we want to pay your attention on that fact than some form styles are dynamic and less-based (defined via style tab in the admin panel). To overwritten these styles you need to use form ID, as sample, if you need to change button hover color you need to use following code:

#[form_id] .scfp-form-action .scfp-form-submit:hover {
background-color: #[some_color] !important;
color: #[some_color] !important;
opacity: 1;
}
where, [form_id] – ID from form shortcode.
If you use widget, you can find [form_id] via FireBug (or other dev tools) or by viewing of html-source of the page.

2) By default, WordPress doens’t use SMTP for notifications.
You can use some third-party plugin for this purposes.
More information you can find on our demo site in the FAQ section – https://wpdemo.webcodin.com/wordpress-plugin-wcp-contact-form/documentation/faq/ – “Why I don’t receive email notifications?” topic.
And yes, after the form submission you will have a record in the Inbox and 2 notifications (admin/user) – based on the settings from Contact Form > Settings > Notifications tab.

We hope, that this information will be helpful.

Hi @webcodin

By default, WordPress doens’t use SMTP for notifications.

It does. SMTP to localhost on port 25 via PHPMailer.

wordpress/wp-includes/class-phpmailer.php, line 215.

Hi Jason,

It does. SMTP to localhost on port 25 via PHPMailer

Yes, SMTP exists. But by default used method “mail”.

wordpress/wp-includes/class-phpmailer.php, line 162.

ah! Thank-you ??

The PHP mail() doc does say “This function opens and closes an SMTP socket for each email, which is not very efficient.” .. so implicitly SMTP?

This is a just note in PHP mail () documentation. This is probably a typo, because it “implicitly SMTP” do not be working without SMTP authentication.

Notifications, it is not the basic functionality of the plugin. To send notifications we are using the standard function wp_mail (). For choice of the method and additional options we are recommended to use other third-party plugins or any other available methods.