Title: ERROR: Empty CAPTCHA
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# ERROR: Empty CAPTCHA

 *  [Lisa W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lisa-w/)
 * (@lisa-w)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-empty-captcha/)
 * I’ve received notices from readers that when they try to post a comment on our
   blog that this is the error message they receive.
    ERROR: Empty CAPTCHA
 * I am using the Coraline theme, version 1.4.1 and recently updated to WP 3.6. 
   I haven’t had any comments since the last updates.
 * I’m not sure how to fix this and would appreciate any help.
 * Thanks ~
    Lisa

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 *  [Doug Cone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nullvariable/)
 * (@nullvariable)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-empty-captcha/#post-4064470)
 * Are you using any plugins that provide a CAPTCHA services? There are a lot of
   different anti-spam plugins that use CAPTCHAs to try to detect spammers.
 * As best as I can tell from the code for the Coraline theme there are no captcha
   functions being loaded.
 * If you cannot easily identify the plugin causing the issue, I would recommend
   disabling all of the plugins on your site, see if the issue still occurs. If 
   it does not, re-enable your plugins one at a time until you cannot post a comment.
   When that happens, you’ll know which plugin is at fault and you can either disable
   it permanently, ensure that it is up-to-date and does not require an API key 
   or something similar, or you can post to the support forum for that specific 
   plugin to get help with resolving the issue.
 *  Thread Starter [Lisa W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lisa-w/)
 * (@lisa-w)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-empty-captcha/#post-4064496)
 * Thank you. I did as you suggested and it seems to be the SI Captcha and maybe
   the JetPack combo. I disabled the SI Captcha and it seems to be working properly.
   The test will be when another comment is attempted.
 * Thanks, again.
 *  [yembee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yembee/)
 * (@yembee)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-empty-captcha/#post-4064731)
 * Tks Lisa. I copied your suggestion and it now works. However, the comment form
   does not contain any form for the user to fill out their names, email, website
   etc. Any help? Tks.
 *  [yembee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yembee/)
 * (@yembee)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-empty-captcha/#post-4064732)
 * I resolved it. Now I am having a comment form without captcha.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [yembee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yembee/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-empty-captcha/#post-4064732)
 * Status: not resolved

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