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I placed the captcha code in my comment form but it doesn’t seem to appear. Does anyone see anything wrong with my implementation?

<fieldset id="comment-form-field">
                            
    {exp:comment:form}
        <label for="name">Name</label>

        <input type="text" name="name" value="{name}" id="name" size="37" /></p>
        <label for="email">Email Address</label>

        <input type="text" name="email" value="{email}" id="email" size="37" /></p>
        <label for="comment">Comment</label>

        <textarea name="comment" rows="8" cols="35" id="comment">{comment</textarea></p>
{if captcha}
Please enter the word you see in the image below:
{captcha}

<input type="text" name="captcha" value="{captcha_word}" size="20" maxlength="20" style="width:140px;" /></p>
{/if}
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /></p>
{/exp:comment:form}
</fieldset>

[Mod Edit: Moved to the EE 2 Tech Support forum]

Check the file permissions on the images/captchas folder. You might want to check a few preferences like Channel Preferences > Comment Posting Preferences > Enable Captcha… (for the channel the entry is in) or Security and Privacy >Captcha Preferences and make sure the server path is correct and the full url is correct.

Also pretty sure the captcha won’t appear if you’re logged in as a super admin 😊

Thanks for the assist, the3mus1can and Dave.

robeehed, are you testing this as a SuperAdmin? If you are, that would explain it. By default, logged in members aren’t required to use CAPTCHAs.

See the attached screen shot.

Check the file permissions on the images/captchas folder. You might want to check a few preferences like Channel Preferences > Comment Posting Preferences > Enable Captcha… (for the channel the entry is in) or Security and Privacy >Captcha Preferences and make sure the server path is correct and the full url is correct.

Thanks everyone for the help. It ended up being the channel preferences. I forgot to enable captha. Thanks The3mus1can for the help on that one.

Yay! If anything else comes up, please do let us know in a new thread..