WP reCAPTCHA Integration drops Google's reCAPTCHA v2 or v3 in front of WordPress's login form, registration form, comment form, and lost-password flow. It stores its keys and which forms are protected as a serialized array in wp_options under recaptcha_options. From a visitor's perspective, the result is a checkbox, an image grid, or a silent v3 score that occasionally throws them out without explanation.

SleekAI runs as a separate plugin and reads the help articles, accessibility note, and contact policy you have already published. The chatbot never reads recaptcha_options directly and has no need to know your site key or secret key. It answers visitor questions about what the prompt means, how to retry after a fail, and what to do if the challenge is unsolvable for them, using the documented language the team has written.

Display conditions scope the chatbot to the help-center pages, the contact template, and the support archive. Every conversation is logged with model name, token usage, and origin page URL, so the team can see whether reCAPTCHA failures are driving the questions or whether the help copy needs work. The integration is deliberately one-way: SleekAI reads documentation, reCAPTCHA does enforcement, no crossover.

reCAPTCHA does an unglamorous but essential job: it filters out the bots that would otherwise drown a contact form or comment section in spam. The trade is that it occasionally pushes back a real human who is on a slow connection, on a shared IP, on a VPN, or who has motion or vision difficulties with the image challenge. Without a help surface, those visitors quietly leave.

A chatbot scoped to the help page can rescue most of them with a sentence about the audio fallback and a sentence about the email override, both pulled from the policy the team has already published. SleekAI is the right shape for this because it keeps reCAPTCHA's actual enforcement untouched. The bot never tries to bypass the challenge, never offers to solve it for a visitor, and never sees the site key or secret key stored in recaptcha_options.

It reads only what is documented and recommends only what the team has already approved. The conversation log is the slow-burn payoff. If most failure questions come from one specific form, the team can lower the v3 threshold on that form or swap to v2 with the explicit audio button.

If most questions are accessibility-related, the help article can grow a clearer section. The site keeps its bot filtering and stops losing the legitimate visitors who hit it.