Protected by reCAPTCHA – how to remove this element?

  • Resolved NL

    (@nlogica)


    10 months, 4 weeks ago

    As you can see in the gif above, there’s an element of Google’s reCAPTCHA tool that appears on the right corner of the website. I’m not sure if this is also known as the recaptcha badge. It appears in all pages and I would like for remove it.

    I’m using WP Forms (Lite), configured with reCAPTCHA v3. This was setup a while ago and the plugin and the form itself are working fine.

    I don’t have any extra recaptcha plugin. It’s just WP Forms.

    This is happening on a low-traffic website where I’m doing some “end of the year” maintenance work and that’s when I noticed it. Even though it’s not a big deal, I would like to fix it.

    My personal impression is that I dealt with this issue in the past (more than a year ago when the site was first launched) and for some reason it reappeared. But I honestly can’t remember for sure :/

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  • Plugin Support Kenneth Macharia

    (@kmacharia)

    Hey @nlogica,

    Thanks for reaching out!

    The reCAPTCHA badge from WPForms is only displayed on pages that contain WPForms. Is it possible that your theme is loading a similar script? Would you mind going to WPForms > Settings > CAPTCHA and toggling the option shown in this screenshot?

    Please let me know how this goes!

    Thank you!

    Thread Starter NL

    (@nlogica)

    Hi @kmacharia, thank you for replying ??

    I enabled “No-Conflict Mode” that you mentioned but it made no difference. I disabled it again.

    The recaptcha badge is indeed showing on all pages!

    I found a solution though. Google’s documentation explain how to hide the badge HERE. And according to a discussion in Stackoverflow, the badge is shown on all pages because recaptcha analyses all of them.

    After adding this to the CSS in the website’s theme, the recaptcha badge immediately stopped showing, which is exactly what I was looking for:

    .grecaptcha-badge { 
    visibility: hidden !important;
}

    Btw, Google’s terms requires that the reCAPTCHA branding is visible somewhere in the user flow. They suggest adding this:

    This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google <a >Privacy Policy</a> and <a >Terms of Service</a> apply.

    From what I saw, WPForms Lite doesn’t allow adding HTML elements to the forms. That feature is reserved to the paid version. But I managed to add it via the pop-up plugin that is being used in this website to show the contact form.

    Case closed.

    • This reply was modified 10 months, 3 weeks ago by NL.
    Plugin Support Kenneth Macharia

    (@kmacharia)

    Hey @nlogica,

    Thank you for the update! I’m glad that the issue is now resolved. ??

    Don’t hesitate to contact us if you bump into any other issues!

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