How to integrate Google reCaptcha protection on your PrestaShop store?
This article will guide you to integrate the very popular Google reCaptcha on your PrestaShop store. Google reCaptcha is an ultimate solution to prevent your PrestaShop site from spam, abuse, and other malicious attacks. You should always have a Captcha type security on your store. It adds an extra layer of unbreakable protection for your website.
Adding Google reCaptcha on a PrestaShop store There are several ways to add Captcha Protection on your store. However, Google reCaptcha is one of the most user-friendly and secure captcha types that are used by the majority of websites today. We will use our PrestaShop Google reCaptcha module to do the integration without editing our PrestaShop codes. Messing with the core PrestaShop files could be dangerous, so we take the easy approach here.
To add Google reCaptcha protection on your PrestaShop store using the Google reCaptcha module, please follow these steps:
Get and install the module Step 1: Visit the Knowband site and purchase the PrestaShop Google reCaptcha module from there. Step 2: After completing the purchase, visit your Knowband account and download the module’s zip file from the “My Downloads” section. Step 3: Now, Login to your PrestaShop store as an Admin user. Using FTP or direct upload, install the module on your store. Step 4: After successful installation, you will find the module listed in "Installed Modules " section.
Step 5: Click on the “Configure” button at the right side of the module listing. It will open the module configuration interface.
Module configuration The module configuration has three tabs namely- General Settings, ReCaptcha Settings, and Look and Feel settings. Step 6: First of all, in General, Settings, check if the module is enabled or disabled. If it is disabled already, Click on the toggle button to enable the module.
Step 7: Now, select the pages from the store where you want to show the Google reCaptcha. You have four major pages on your website where you should definitely use the reCaptcha.
Step 8: Now, click on the “ReCaptcha Settings� tab. Here you will need to enter the Google Site key and Secret key to save and enable the Google ReCaptcha protection on your PrestaShop store.
How to get Google Site key and Secret key? You can follow these steps to get the Site key and Secret key for entering in the ReCaptcha Settings tab of the module. Step 1: Visit this link https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/comingsoon/invisiblebeta.html
Step 2: Click on Sign up button on the screen that opens from the link
Step 3: On the next page you will be asked to sign in to your Google account if you are not signed in already. Enter the account credentials and login to your Gmail account. Step 4: Next, it will open the "Register a new site� interface if you have not already registered any other site previously. Fill up the form as specified in the image below:
Step 5: After Clicking on Register, you will be directed to a new page, where you can see your Site Key and Secret Key. Copy these keys.
Step 6: Paste the copied keys in the specified fields of the ReCaptcha
Settings tab in Google reCaptcha module. Save the settings and you are done. That's it. After entering and saving the Site key and Secret key, your store is ready with the Google reCaptcha protection. Clear the cache and open the customer login page, registration page etc, you will see the Google reCaptcha standing there and protecting your store.
Over to you So, this is how you can enable the Google reCaptcha protection on your PrestaShop store without any hassle and mess with the core files. You also can try by yourself on the free demo of the Google reCaptcha module and see how it works. Here, you can also change the look and feel of the reCaptcha block right from the backend itself. <div style="width: 50%;margin: 0 auto; text-align: center;"> <a class="btn btn-default" href="https://www.knowband.com/prestashop-google-recaptcha" title="Jump to Google reCaptcha Demo">Jump to Google reCaptcha Demo</a> </div>