What's the current captcha plugin state in Plone world (Specially 4.3)? Which are you using and why?

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We've been asked to add captcha support into Products.PloneFormGen to one of your clients.

Although https://docs.plone.org/working-with-content/managing-content/ploneformgen/captcha.html suggests collective.captcha or collective.recaptcha (and both worked in our tests), we decided to search for the captcha ecosystem in Plone and came across all these options:

collective.captcha (Last release: 1.7 (2012-02-27))


Registers a browser view named "Captcha".

plone.formwidget.captcha (Last release: 1.0.3 (2016-03-04))


Registers a browser view named "Captcha".

quintagroup.captcha.core (Last release: 0.4.3 - (2013-07-04))


quintagroup.plonecaptchas (Last release: 4.2 - Apr 20, 2012)


http://svn.quintagroup.com/products/quintagroup.plonecaptchas/

quintagroup.pfg.captcha (Last release: 1.0.5 (2012-04-19))


http://svn.quintagroup.com/products/quintagroup.pfg.captcha/

quintagroup.z3cform.captcha (Last release: 1.0.3 (2013-07-17))


http://svn.quintagroup.com/products/quintagroup.z3cform.captcha/

quintagroup.formlib.captcha (Last release: 1.4.3 (2014-06-11))


http://svn.quintagroup.com/products/quintagroup.formlib.captcha/

https://github.com/codesyntax/quintagroup.formlib.captcha (is using recaptcha, but keeping the last version 1.4.3, don't know what happened)

collective.z3cform.norobots (Last release: 1.4.4 (2016-07-20))


collective.pfg.norobots (Last release: 1.2 (2016-07-21))


collective.recaptcha (Last release: 2.0.0 (2016-03-06))



collective.recaptcha registers a browser view (same idea as collective.captcha)

plone.formwidget.recaptcha/ (Last release: 2.0a3 (2016-12-21))


plone.formwidget.recaptcha, although inspired by collective.recaptcha, uses a different approach and doesn't register a brwoser view named "captcha".

Final questions

  • Which are you using and why?
  • Are we okay using either collective.recaptcha/collective.captcha in our use case or is it the Plone community going somewhere else?
  • Can collective.recaptcha and plone.formwidget.recaptcha for example be added together?
  • Should plone.formwidget.captcha be installed instead of collective.captcha?
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what a nightmare! let's ask @smcmahon, as the father of the creature, to double check what he recommends for your case.

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the latest collective.recaptcha works great with PloneFormGen

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(slightly off topic.... )

If I remember right: None of the above products have a behavior for dexterity.

I made another (!) add on since I could not get anything to work for my purpose:

  • To let anon users add content.

That said: the product is in pretty 'alpha stage' (but works).

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Yes, that was the recomendation that was given to the client. collective.captcha works as well, but the audio option is only in english.

@hvelarde the idea of this post is not only for Products.PloneFormGen, but a discussion for Plone world itself. Like @cdw9 said, collective.recaptcha works fine with Products.PloneFormGen.