Title: Checkbox Error Message Redirect
Last modified: May 17, 2018

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# Checkbox Error Message Redirect

 *  Resolved [davel35](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davel35/)
 * (@davel35)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checkbox-error-message-redirect/)
 * Hi, We are testing the module to use solely for the comment checkbox functionality,
   and we are wondering why the decision was made by the developers to redirect 
   the user to a new error message page if the opt-in checkbox isn’t checked. This
   experience seems unintuitive and doesn’t really match web standards for form 
   validation error messages. What is the reason for not displaying a required error
   message under the checkbox if the user doesn’t select it? Thanks!

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 *  [van-ons](https://wordpress.org/support/users/van-ons/)
 * (@van-ons)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checkbox-error-message-redirect/#post-10292775)
 * Hi [@davel35](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davel35/),
 * This wasn’t our decision but it is the standard WordPress Comments behaviour 
   to show any message in a separate screen. To not mess with functionality too 
   much we left it as is although we agree this isn’t a good user experience. Hopefully
   Core decides to change this at some point!
 *  Thread Starter [davel35](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davel35/)
 * (@davel35)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checkbox-error-message-redirect/#post-10296251)
 * Ok. Thanks for the feedback.

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 * Last reply from: [davel35](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davel35/)
 * Last activity: [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checkbox-error-message-redirect/#post-10296251)
 * Status: resolved