unable to get captcha field in registration form

I have installed CB Anti Spam, and am trying to place a Captcha field in my registration form. I believe CB Anti Spam is published (see first attachment).

antispam_captcha is included in the registration form as witnessed by this screenshot


Yet, the captcha field doesn't show up on the registration form, and when I drill down into the anti spam_captcha field pithing field management, I get the following:

I do not understand what more i have to do to have CB AntiSpam published.

It directly tells you above the field title that you didn't publish CB AntiSpam. You should find its plugin in CB > Plugin Management where you will need to publish it. Your screenshot is Joomlas Extensions > Plugins and is just of CB AntiSpams Joomla plugin for allowing CB AntiSpam captcha to work outside of CB in Joomla usages; it is not where you manage CB plugins.

Thank you. I was looking only at Joomla plugin management. Now I understand that plugins enabled in Joomla plugin management simply allow those plugins to work outside of CB, and for them to work within CB, must be enabled in CB plugin management.

In a future release we can work on improving that message to also have a quick way to publish the plugin directly from the message or at least link to the plugins edit page to make that less confusing.

forge.joomlapolis.com/issues/8171