reCAPTCHA on wp_login_form()

Hi @andrewsmillen —

I see that you have a custom sidebar login form on the site.

To display the reCaptcha on this login form, it needs to include this code:

<?php do_action(‘login_form’) ?>

This triggers a standard action in WordPress that invokes and displays all additional elements besides the username/password that have been added by plugins (such as the reCpatcha added by this plugin).

Hope that helps!

Best,
Robert

HI @andrewsmillen — did that help? Looks like the sidebar login still doesn’t have the captcha yet…

Hi Robert –?thanks for the quick reply. The client ended up taking the captcha off the login form entirely (moved it to the registration form where it makes more sense anyway). So I didn’t get to test your solution. Thanks for the help though!

• This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by andrewsmillen.

Glad to hear you found a solution that is working for you.

Hi Robert,
I am getting the same issue as above. So I am calling the form then the captcha as follows:

wp_login_form();
do_action('login_form');

But when trying to login, its redirecting me to the wp-login page with the error: Please check the ReCaptcha box.

Many thanks
Jason

Hi @redsentence — I believe you just need:

<?php do_action(‘login_form’) ?>

perhaps wp_login_form() was creating a duplicate that couldn’t be processed?

Hi Robert
Thanks but when I remove that the form disappears, I only get the captcha box.
Thanks!
Jason

Ah, right. Sorry. That makes sense. The do_action is to trigger the additional elements. You still need the form drawing function call.

Is your form posting against the standard wp-admin/wp-login.php area? Or is it customised somehow?

Hi Robert,
I’ve created a custom login pop up, so not using the main wp-login

Many thanks
Jason

If you are authenticating against somewhere other than wp-login.php, you will need to use the same hooks (in particular do_action('authenticate') to the back-end where you are processing the authentication to be able to invoke the processor for the reCaptcha.

Hi Robert,
I am using do_action(‘login_form’); but not showing form and recaptcha.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by promith007.

Any news on this?

I have exactly the same issue

Thanks!

@davouid the plugin only officially supports the main WP login page and a WooCommerce customer page. However, if you would like to contribute well-tested code to support custom login pages, we would welcome a pull request here: https://github.com/cyberscribe/login-recaptcha