Sign up for Google reCAPTCHA
Note: The exact steps may vary with different versions of the reCAPTCHA website.
- Visit https://www.google.com/recaptcha and click Admin console in the top right to sign in or create an account
- Register a new site
- Label: This is only used for your reference on the reCAPTCHA site
- Click Checkbox under reCAPTCHA v2
- Domains: The web domains for which this will be used. If your contact form is at www.example.com/contact.html, you would enter example.com
- The terms will need to be accepted by checking the box
- Send alerts to owners can be unchecked, this is more relevant to other forms of reCAPTCHA that include code on every page of your site
- After registering you will be shown your Site key and Secret key, keep these for later
Install the updated Send Form Action
- Download the Form Suite Action bundle from this page
- Extract the archive if your browser has not already done so
- Double click the Form Suite Action bundle or drag to Freeway's Dock icon to install
- You will be prompted about installing the Action
- You will then be informed that previous versions have been disabled
Update your contact form
Note: If you do not already have a form set up with the Send Form Action, you can find information about doing that in
Creating a Contact Form in Freeway and
Send Form Action- Find where you have used the Send Form Action and open the Actions Palette
- Scroll to the bottom to find two new options to enable reCaptcha and to enter the Secret key
- Tick the option to Use Google reCaptcha
- Paste the Secret key from earlier into the reCaptcha Secret Key field
- Insert a Markup Item from the Insert menu and paste the following code, replacing your_site_key with the Site key from earlier. Importantly not the Secret key.
<script src="https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js"></script>
<div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="your_site_key"></div>