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Hello,

Looking at the website source it’s not clear which plugin is concatenating your scripts but some kind of optimization plugin is doing so. We saw instances or wprocket in the source which is a usual culprit for these kind of things.

You may have to go through manual debugging to find out which specific plugin is optimizing your website code. On way to do this is by using the Health Check & Troubleshooting Plugin. We do recommend taking a backup of your website and understanding how to restore this back up in case anything goes wrong during the troubleshooting process. We also recommend referring to their documentation regarding troubleshooting.

Alternatively, you could skip using plugin entirely and use ReCaptcha v3 built into Contact Form 7. Please refer to their documentation for more information. You may need to uninstall this plugin for ReCaptcha v3 to take place.

Finally, there are a couple other ReCaptcha plugins we could recommend trying as well such as Contact Form 7 Captcha or hCaptcha for WordPress.

Hopefully using one of the above solutions you’re able to have ReCaptcha on your Contact Form 7 form.

Hello,

This is likely a WP Rocket issue where the WP Rocket plugin defers loading the reCpatcha script. You may try adding the script to WP Rockets exclusion list to see if that helps:

https://docs.wp-rocket.me/article/976-exclude-files-from-defer-js

You’ll want to add the following:

wpcf7-recaptcha/assets/js/wpcf7-recaptcha-controls.js

Make sure when you add the above there are no <pre> tags included in the copy/paste. If you’ve done the above and continue to run into issues please reply back to this email and we can try to assist further.

Hello,

It could have something to do with WP Rocket lazy loading the ReCaptcha Callback script.

The ReCaptcha callback is in the plugin script wpcf7-recaptcha-controls and looking at the page source we see that WP Rocket is lazy loading the script. We would recommend excluding wpcf7-recaptcha-controls from being lazy loading.

https://docs.wp-rocket.me/article/976-exclude-files-from-defer-js

It looks like you may be able to add wpcf7-recaptcha-controls.js to the area linked above in the WP Rocket docs.

Hello,

We do see that you have a ReCaptcha on your Contact Form which is a good start. We have also verified that the ReCaptcha is working as expected.

We suspect that it’s not the form submissions causing issues but the plaintext email addresses displayed throughout your website (Homepage and Contact Page). Unfortunately we are at a point of the internet where it’s rudimentary to parse a websites text and pull any found email addresses. We recommend as an alternative to direct users to your contact form instead of displaying your email address.

If you believe that the above is not the case in most spam submissions, you could increase the Security Preference on the API Key itself, but that may make it more frustrating for actual users trying to submit your forms. See the documentation from Google for more information. If you’re still having spam issues with the form you could try switching over to v3 of ReCapthca (which Contact Form 7 natively supports). This is supposed to be a better version since it monitors how the user interacts with the entire website and not just a specific page. See the Contact Form 7 documentation for more information (and you could uninstall this plugin).

Hello,

When visiting the website provided I’m not seeing a ReCaptcha on the forms. Submissions also don’t seem to be going through as it’s expecting a ReCpathca Response, which it’s unable to get. I suspect it may have something to do with the Caching plugin involved. We recommend checking with the specific Caching plugin to see if you can exclude wpcf7-recaptcha-controls from being combined and minified with the rest of the site scripts.

You should also be able to increase the ReCaptcha difficulty. See Security Preferences in the ReCaptcha API Key Settings.

Finally, if the above doesn’t work you could ditch this plugin and give the ReCaptcha v3 a try. Over a longer period of time it is supposed to be better at detecting how users interact with your website which means it’s going to be better at detecting spam bots.

Hopefully, using the above you’re able to solve your specific problem but if you have any questions, comments, concerns you can reply back to this thead and we can assist further. Have a wonderful weekend!

Hello,

Unfortunately, there is no “per form basis” for Google ReCaptcha v3. Version 3 of ReCaptcha runs site-wide as it monitors the activity of the user throughout their entire session to detect if they are a real human. With v3 the [recaptcha] tag is obsolete. Contact Form 7 also natively supports v3 out of the box, so you will not need this plugin installed to run ReCaptcha v3.

As of today, Google has no plans to retire ReCaptcha v2 [in the near future] and is still supporting both versions of ReCaptcha. Nothing lasts forever, though, but there is no deadline for v2 support.

Hello,

We have Installation Instructions found on the plugins homepage. It was originally put together to mimic exactly how Contact Form 7 handled reCaptcha v2 prior to the developer removing it. If you have any questions during setup please reply back to this topic and we can assist further. Have a wonderful rest of your week!