Title: Required hidden fields causing error
Last modified: March 21, 2019

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# Required hidden fields causing error

 *  Resolved [lswest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lswest/)
 * (@lswest)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/required-hidden-fields-causing-error/)
 * Until recently, everything was working fine. However, I received multiple notifications
   today that users could not complete the form because there was an error about
   incorrect entries.
 * Looking at the form, it seems that the conditional fields (of which there are
   two groups, one for business addresses, and one for private residences) are expected
   to be filled out completely. Looking at the CF7 plugin source code, I can clearly
   see the PHP code that checks for validation errors and discards any originating
   from a hidden group, but Chrome and Firefox both still fail to send the form.
 * There’s another issue from 1und1 that’s causing field data to not be parsed correctly–
   could this be the cause of the validation errors as well?
 * Details:
    Wordpress 5.1.1 (Managed WordPress through 1und1.de) CF7 5.1.1 CF7CF
   1.4.1

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 *  Plugin Author [Jules Colle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jules-colle/)
 * (@jules-colle)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/required-hidden-fields-causing-error/#post-11380722)
 * can you share a link?
 *  Thread Starter [lswest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lswest/)
 * (@lswest)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/required-hidden-fields-causing-error/#post-11382779)
 * Sorry, I meant to update this post a few days ago. The problem is solved, and
   was linked to [this error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/data-not-pulling-through/).
   Essentially, a must-use plugin from 1&1 caused Contact Form 7 to fail silently,
   so that no data was actually read from the form, which seems to have caused the
   issue with Conditional Fields.
 * 1&1 has since then disabled the plugin (I believe it was something along the 
   lines of “cosy-addressbook”) and everything is working again now. As such, there’s
   not much you can do about it (save, perhaps, catch the error if Contact Form 
   7 returns data like [your-name]?).
 * Thanks for responding!

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## Tags

 * [Conditional Groups](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/conditional-groups/)
 * [validation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/validation/)

 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [lswest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lswest/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/required-hidden-fields-causing-error/#post-11382779)
 * Status: resolved