text captcha on registration page

  • I have checked the box that allows anyone to register. But there are an indordinate number of spam registrations. While there appear to be a number of plugins that add a captcha, these same plugins have huge files. I worry that they will slow things down considerably.

    I have stared at
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/wp_register
    hoping to see something about adding a simple question (that only a real person could answer) to the registration form – along the lines of wp-gatekeeper plugin for the comment form. Alas, there is nothing there.

    I find it quite remarkable that this is not something that is automatically added to the core wordpress, with instructions on how to change the question and answer. (search results for [registration captcha])

    Can someone lead me to where I should look to find out how to add this required question to the registration form? I’m guessing that it has to be added somewhere on /wordpress/wp-login.php and/or /wordpress/wp-register.php. Are there other files that would have to be changed as well?

    Thank you for any help you can offer.

    -EMorris, wp 2.8.5, mySQL 4.1.22, php4.4.7, WinXP, Firefox 3.0.15

    (I really only know enough about php coding to get myself in trouble.)

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  • What about:

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/is-human/

    Thread Starter ejm

    (@llizard)

    Thank you for your reply, esmi. That is one of the plugins that I saw. It’s huge – fonts, images as well as the php files to run it. It seems like a lot of things that could break.

    All I want is how to add a little simple text. Just to add a question or two to the registration form. If the question is answered incorrectly, the registration will fail. I can’t see that it will need much more than a few lines of code – I just don’t know where to put the code….

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