[Plugin: Enmask Captcha] Regular text based captcha for better user experience

Well, this is obviously a very very new plugin for WP!! I’ve got it on my blog right now and it is extremely effective.

Mind you, this may be because my site has a green background w/ a light yellow text. In the EnMask Captcha challenge display and entry box… well, light yellow on a white background do not go well together. So, a bit of research & I find that I can modify things like backgrounds and text colors. Yay! But…… I’m code deficient. CSS can be created by yours truly, with a lot of trial and error. WP is NOT tolerant of error, from vast personal experience.

Where would one place a CSS file such as this? Is it a CSS file that is required, or a php? Am I talking off the top of my head? I peeked at the page source for EnMask’s homepage for inspiration, but there were too many .css files (4!! hehe…) and I got a headache.

Ideas, thoughts, suggestions, directions with detailed maps, would be appreciated. Thanks, EnMask, methinx you have a great thing here!!

Hi Robbz,

Firstly thank you for your query.

You can look at the source of the following page:
https://enmask.com/test/customcss.html

Check for the following code:
<!– Custom css goes here –>

Hope this helps you.

Thank you
Enmask.com

Nope. As I said previously, I am code deficient. Your link gave me the building blocks, I’m just unsure as to where to put this css coding.

A separate file? Where would it go?
Inside another css file (like style.css)?

Nah, dinna fret about it. I’ll take a year or so and study this issue. Like I said, you gave me the blocks. I’ll figger out where to build the thing. Besides, WP is massive enough as it is for a newb like moi and this php schlmolla. And I dinna wanna be a nOOb about all this!! d(>_<)b

Hey, really truly, this is a trés cool plugin. Thanks for the help!!

Hi Robbz,

This is an example of css block that you need to put:

.enmask_captcha_widget{border:1px solid green;background:yellow;}
.enmask_captcha_text{color:Red;border:1px solid green;background:orange;}

You need to put this css file in the “style.css” of your active wordpress theme.

For that browse:
https://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/theme-editor.php
put the css block at the end of “style.css” and update it.

Thank you.
Enmask.com

Aye-yup, that did the trick! And to think that I’d have spent daze and weeks trying to figure that oh-so simple thing out!!

Graci, EnMask (and Mr. enmasksteve)! I guess I am a nOOb, after all. This plug-in is going to make my life s-o-o-o much easier now. Then again, maybe I needta get me a “real” life!!

My erstwhile blog

Cool, glad it works for you. ??

Thank you.
Enmask.com

@enmasksteve: Love this plugin! Hey, I just sent an email to you folks but figured I would ask in case others are curious about the answer.

I have the plugin working for the Options that you can specify them for but I also needed to use this in my php and/or theme templates. The reCaptcha has this doc’d at Google and that works fine, but I really do prefer enmask’s solution. It’s easier and almost fun to use in comparison and I’m using this on my home page for new users so want it to be that way.

I looked through the code and took what I needed out and it’s working for me in a php page just fine. However, I wanted to get enmask’s official take on this because if you update the plugin for future WP version changes, it would be nice if you updated this feature as well so I don’t have to :).

Anyway, great work and I seriously hope you get the word out so the service stays up and running.

Hi Nick,

Thanks for your support, if I understood it correctly, you can go to enmask.com, signup, login and you will see the PHP, .Net API. You can program it anyway you want.
Yes, we need to get the words out, hopefully you can help us.

Thanks,
Steve

Steve,

I just registered. I have already been to the site and saw that you have a WordPress, Joomla and Drupal plugin. I previously used the php code from your WordPress plugin and got it to work as I’ve mentioned. I did this by using the snippets from the plugin for form html and handling the validation in the Post in my custom php page.

I guess I was looking for a more supported or recommended way, similar to the Google page referred to above. If I am missing something on the website do let me know.

Anyway, if nothing is available, I am most likely going to share my WordPress login/registration custom solution once I have it done and will surely feature your plugin. The solution does login and registration forms on the same page similar to Facebook and Twitter. The enmask Captcha would sit in the registration form via the code snippets from the plugin, and I use it in the separate WP Lost Password form via the plugin.

It might also be worth it for you to have a tutorial on this and have one of the big WordPress tutorial web site feature it. Developers are looking for this flexibility and you already have it, just not explicitly documented.

Thanks for the quick reply btw.

-Nick

Nick,

We are working on the documentation. We will update the documentation shortly. We are also planning to put up blog posts so that we can share our thoughts.

We are also planning to upgrade the plugin to integrate enmask captcha into the theme templates.

Thanks,
enmask.com

Looks like this is going to be a lifesaver but two issues

1 – the server has been down for a while (8th Dec)

2 – you really should avoid using “my_” in a production release.
in wp_enmask_admin.php I had to change the “my_plugin_menu” to “enmask_plugin_menu” as it was clashing with one of “my” plugins ;oP

I’m hoping you get the server issues sorted out.
I was on the understanding this was a cloud service though…

thanks

while I’m here…
can this not be locally served?
as in place the required files on my server and avoid when Enmask’s server is down

thanks again