🔒 Security Settings

The Security Settings section helps protect your submission forms from spam or bot entries.
You can enable either a Challenge Question or Google reCAPTCHA v2 for added security.

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📍 Accessing This Setting

1. Go to your WordPress dashboard
2. Navigate to Easy Post Submission → Forms Overview
3. Click Form Settings for the form you want to configure
4. Scroll to the Security Fields section

🧠 Challenge

Enable a simple manual challenge (like a security question) to filter spam submissions.
Users must enter the correct answer to submit the form.

Options:

Option	Description
Enable/Disable	Toggle to activate or deactivate the challenge
Challenge Question	A question shown on the form (e.g., “What is 2 + 2?”)
Challenge Response	The correct answer to the question (e.g., “4”)

🧿 Google reCAPTCHA v2

Add a reCAPTCHA widget to prevent bots from submitting the form.

✅ Make sure to use reCAPTCHA version 2, not v3.
📌 If these fields are blank, reCAPTCHA will not appear on the form.

Required fields:

Field	Description
ReCAPTCHA Site Key	Public key from Google reCAPTCHA admin panel
ReCAPTCHA Secret Key	Private key used to validate the reCAPTCHA server-side

🔑 How to Get Google reCAPTCHA v2 Keys

Follow these steps to create a new reCAPTCHA v2 and get your Site Key & Secret Key:

1. Go to the official Google reCAPTCHA admin panel:
   https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin

2. Click the “+” (Create) button to register a new site.

3. Fill out the form:

   • Label: Choose any name (e.g., "My Form Protection")
   • reCAPTCHA type: Select reCAPTCHA v2 → "I'm not a robot" Checkbox
   • Domains: Enter your website domain (e.g., example.com)
   • Accept the reCAPTCHA Terms of Service

4. Click Submit

5. After creating, you will receive:

   • ✅ Site Key
   • ✅ Secret Key

Copy these keys into your plugin settings to enable reCAPTCHA on your form.

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📌 Notes

• The Site Key is inserted into the front-end form to render the checkbox.
• The Secret Key is used server-side to verify the response with Google’s API.
• Make sure your domain matches exactly as entered in the Google dashboard.
• You can generate multiple keys for different projects or domains if needed.

caution

Click the Save Settings button at the bottom right of the page to apply any changes.

🛠 Troubleshooting

• reCAPTCHA not displaying? Make sure both keys are valid and v2 is selected
• Challenge not working? Ensure question and answer are both filled
• Submissions blocked? Check if reCAPTCHA is loading properly and not blocked by browser plugins

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