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Hello,

After testing this, the reason we do not mark the form as invalid is specifically for spambots. The form instead gets marked as “spam” with both the spam class and data-status="spam". This is to ensure that 3rd party plugins such as Flamingo and Akismet pick up on this. Currently, it’s not something we feel should change.

You could create your own custom validation following the Contact Form 7 Help Docs.

You may also need to look at our wpcf7spam javascript event listener in:
/wpcf7-recaptcha/assets/js/wpcf7-recaptcha-controls.js<br />
Replicating the functionality here, removing the event listener, and adding your own for wpcf7invalid.

Hopefully you understand why we’ve chosen not to set forms as invalid and the above instructions help you override this functionality if you so choose. We’ll mark this thread as resolved for now but should you have any other questions regarding the above feel free to reply here and we can get back to you. Stay safe and have a wonderful rest of your week!

Hello,

Thank you for reporting this issue. At one point we did have to build in additional functionality specifically for Flamingo to work around the reCaptcha tag removal. It could be that either this is no longer needed or some hooks have been changed. In any case we’ll look into this, try to replicate the issue, and patch it as soon as we can. We’ll reply back to this topic with updates as they come to. Thanks again, stay safe, and have a wonderful rest of your week!

Not a problem! You could look into a simpler approach instead of a reCaptcha such as

Honeypot for Contact Form 7 or Really Simple Captcha.

We’re also open to any suggestions on how we can make our plugin work better with the given theme should the authors have advice. In anycase, we’ll go ahead and mark this thread as resolved for now. Have a wonderful weekend!

Hello,

This is a difficult issue to replicate. We apologize for the trouble but could you take a full backup of your website ( and understand how to do a restore ). Then you can install the WordPress Health Check & Troubleshooting Plugin. This plugin will allow you to safely disable plugins and revert to a default theme. For more information you can read over the Troubleshooting Handbook. We believe it’s a conflict with the theme ( or one of the installed plugins ) since we cannot replicate it in a normal 2020 theme environment.

Here’s the semi-technical overview:

– We do see reCaptcha script being added in the footer of your website but we do not see the expected wpcf7-recaptcha-controls.js which holds the callback function.
– In our plugin code, for the Google reCaptcha JS script to even be added to the page it needs to have the wpcf7-recaptcha-controls.js code added before hand. See requirements below:

wp_register_script(
	'google-recaptcha',		// Slug
	$url,				// URL
	array(				// Requirements
		'wpcf7-recaptcha-controls'
	),
	'2.0',				// Version
	true				// Add to footer
);

The fact that the google-recaptcha script is being added to the page but the required wpcf7-recaptcha-controls is not being added at all leads us to believe it’s a conflict with the theme or plugin. Hopefully using the Health Check & Troubleshooting tool will help narrow down where the issue specifically is.

Hello,

Theme or plugin conflicts are always a possibility. Especially when so many plugin implement different versions of reCaptcha in various ways. We would suggest doing the following:

Take a full backup of your theme and database ( you should be doing this regularly regardless of issues, backups are great! ). Install the WordPress Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin. This will allow you to safely ( just for your logged in user ) disable all plugins except Contact Form 7 and This plugin to see if the issue persists. It will also allow you to switch to a default theme to see if the issue lies with the theme itself. At which point you can enable plugins until you find the one causing issues. For more information please read their documentation:

https://make.ww.wp.xz.cn/support/handbook/appendix/troubleshooting-using-the-health-check/

If you’ve completed the above and the issue persists then the problem may lie elsewhere. Looking at your website we could not find any instance of Contact Form 7 or reCaptcha. Hopefully the above helps. Stay safe and have a wonderful rest of your week!

@josephuspaye

Under Contact > reCaptcha Version did you are you using the Default Usage or reCaptcha v2? Do you have any plugins that work with or modify WooCommerce? Have you tried installing the WordPress Health Check Plugin and following their documentation you should be able to safely disable all plugins except Contact Form 7 and reCaptcha v2 for Contact Form 7 as well as switching to a default theme. This will ensure there’s no plugin or theme conflicts preventing the plugin from working properly.

Hello,

Thank you for linking your website for us to view. We do see the correct scripts loading in the correct order and there doesn’t appear to be any Javascript errors in the browser console which are all good signs. It’s currently unclear why it wouldn’t be loading the full reCaptcha so we’re going to suggest some ideas to try:

1) Try changing the reCaptcha source from google.com to recaptcha.net. You can see the screenshot below on where to make this change:

https://ps.w.org/wpcf7-recaptcha/assets/screenshot-1.jpg?rev=2153682

2) Ensure your domain is white-listed, the keys are version 2 keys, and they are correctly input. You can view the Installation tab for full details:

https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/wpcf7-recaptcha/#installation

3) Maybe try installing the WordPress Healthcheck & Troubleshooting plugin and follow their documentation on troubleshooting. This will allow you to safely disable plugins ( Except Contact Form 7 & this plugin ) which will let you know if there’s a plugin conflict or theme conflict. If you find it’s a plugin conflict you can come back and let us know and we’ll be able to advise on how to move forward.

Sorry about this, not an issue we’ve seen before but hopefully the above options will help narrow down the root cause of the issue. In any case, stay safe and have a wonderful rest of your week!