About this plugin
Privacy CAPTCHA for Cap integrates Cap — a self-hosted, privacy-friendly, proof-of-work CAPTCHA — into the parts of WordPress that attract the most spam: comments, login, user registration, WooCommerce checkout, and Gravity Forms.
Unlike third-party CAPTCHAs (reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, Turnstile), Cap runs the proof-of-work entirely in the visitor’s browser and verifies the token against your own Cap server. No data leaves your infrastructure.
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Unofficial integration. 0). This plugin is a third-party integration and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Cap project.
“Cap” refers to that project solely to describe what this plugin works with.
Features
- First-class Gravity Forms field — drag a “Privacy CAPTCHA for Cap” into any form from the Advanced Fields group. Per-field display-mode override.
- Contact Form 7 integration — protects every CF7 form automatically.
- WordPress comments, wp-login, registration integrations — togglable from one settings page.
- WooCommerce integration — checkout plus the My Account login, registration, and lost-password forms, each its own toggle. Only loads when WooCommerce is active.
- Dashboard widget — at-a-glance Cap server stats (challenges, verified, failed, hourly chart) right on the WordPress dashboard.
- Granular per-surface toggles and developer filters ( cap_captcha_protect ) to enable/disable protection on any form, even conditionally.
- Three display modes: inline widget, floating popover, or fully programmatic (auto-solves silently).
- Fully self-hosted assets — the proof-of-work WebAssembly module, the cap-widget script, and the pako decompression library all ship inside the plugin and are served locally, so no jsdelivr or other third-party CDN is contacted at runtime. DSGVO/GDPR-clean by default.
- WP 6.5+ native script-module API for proper ES-module loading.
- i18n-ready with German translations bundled.
- Matches your Gravity Forms design: in Orbital forms the CAPTCHA takes on the look of the fields around it, including form styles set in the block editor. Everything stays overridable with CSS custom properties.
- Filter hooks for protection gating, asset URLs, button classes, i18n strings, and the display mode.
Requirements
- WordPress 6.5 or later
- PHP 8.3 or later
- A reachable Cap server (see https://trycap.dev/)
- Gravity Forms 2.5+ (only if you enable the Gravity Forms integration)
- WooCommerce (only if you enable the WooCommerce integration)