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Captcha Questions Plugin

Categories: Antispam Plugins, Bundled plugin, 6.x, 7.x
Bundled plugin: If you're using a b2evolution version that supports this plugin, it is already in your plugins folder. There is no need to download it. If it is not installed yet, simply click "Install new" in your plugin list.

This plugin allows you to add CAPTCHAs to your site in the form of simple questions requiring simple text answers.

For example the site would ask "What animal is Bugs Bunny?" and the user would need to type in "rabbit" or "a rabbit".

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Plugin Settings

Captcha Questions Plugin

You can select where the plugin should be used:

  • anonymous item forms
  • anonymous comment forms
  • new registration forms
  • anonymous messaging forms

You can configure your questions and a list of possible answers for each question in the Questions field of the plugin settings. Each line of the questions field should have the following format:

Question text?  Answer1|Answer2|...|AnswerN 

The string from the beginning of the line to the last question mark (?) is considered to be the question text. Note that the question text may contain multiple ?s.

The string after the last ? until the end of the line is the answer to the question. It is possible to have multiple answers for the question, and in this case, each answer should be separated by a pipe |. Answers are case-insensitive.

Usage

Try to come up with questions that are specific to your website. The questions should be constructed in such a way that your visitors will be able to answer them easily but not be too predictable for a spam bot writer.

Do not forget to include all possible forms of the answer, for example:

How much is 5 plus 4? 9|Nine

The above should accept answers such as "9", "nine", "Nine", "NINE", and all other possible upper, lower case combinations of the word "nine" as correct answers.

The plugin will not be effective if you do not configure it and supply your own questions. Using default questions (for older versions) give spambots the opportunity to answer automatically because they already know the questions and the answers.

Captcha Questions Plugin
Sample anonymous comment form with captcha question

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Comment from: zooplah Member

Keith

This really should allow per-blog questions. In a multiblog system, the questions that readers of one blog could answer might be different from those of a reader of a different blog. Of course, it should merge the site-wide and per-blog settings, for those whose multiple blogs don’t need seperate questions.

2014-06-08 @ 23:57

Comment from: mgsolipa Member

Thanks @zooplah, the developers have been informed about this request.

2014-06-09 @ 19:51

Comment from: Gajendra Visitor

Gajendra

I installed the plugin and created the questions.
But nothing is showing up in my comment forms.

Is something more required to be done ?

Please help.

Thanks

2014-09-16 @ 16:05

Comment from: frank Visitor

frank

logout to see captcha working

2015-07-06 @ 03:41

Comment from: abhijitkn Member

I installed & activated the plugin. The question can be seen, but it’s repeated all the time. I added multiple questions thinking that it will keep on changing when the page is reloaded just like recaptcha plugin.
Am I missing any setting?

2017-02-25 @ 19:49

Comment from: amoun Member

@abhijitkn
Ok so years later v6.11.2
The plugin code says
// Assign a random question ID for each IP address
so no change if you keep checking with the same connection or have a static IP

2019-07-19 @ 18:10


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