Google ReCaptcha v3 & Contact Form 7 Not Working

  • Resolved doshermanastuciudadhoy

    (@doshermanastuciudadhoy)


    5 years, 8 months ago

    Hello friends,

    Yesterday I was fighting with the forms of a web of a client, deactivate theme, all the plugins and everything and the problem continued, I gave the following error “There was an error trying to send your message. Please try again later.” when sending mostly with Google Chrome, although it also happened sometimes with Firefox.

    Finally, almost desperate, I decided to delete the Google reCAPTCHA V3 keys from the CF7 integration section and then the problem was solved. I have proof that I’m not the only one who is experiencing this problem, so I’m telling you to solve it and also that other users do not have to spend a bad afternoon like the one I had yesterday :-).

    a greeting

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  • I am having this same issue—a recurring issue with the CF7 error when using reCaptcha v3 “There was an error trying to send your message. Please try again later.” We got it working after 8-10 hours work a month ago, now with no changes at all to the website the issue is happening again.

    This is unbelievably frustrating and seems insolvable. The only way to get CF7 to work is to disable reCaptcha—then we get Russian spam like crazy.

    Is it possible that too m uch trsting of form with the v3 activated will cause Google to block the form sending? I give up.

    All plugins have been vetted, and make no difference. The only way to get CF7 to work is with reCaptcha disabled.

    Is there a fix for this?

    After further work, the CF7 form is sending but shows the error message “There was an error trying to send your message. Please try again later” to the user. The send is sporadic, but is sending the autoresponders etc.— still showing an error. I have tried with v3 and v2 using the v@ CF7 plugin.

    I am utilizing ‘Honeypot” until this is debugged. I hope I can get help on this as it seems to be a CF7 issue.

    Recaptcha is not working at all with the latest Contact Form 7. Generates an error “There was an error trying to send your message. Please try again later.” Other plugins all vetted. When reCaptcha disabled, the forms sends fine. There is an incompatibility that needs to be handled here as there is not other spam protectipon that works and the Russians bombard my clients.

    May I ask for detailed instructrions where exactly to put the code @tezet provided?

    I’m using my custom wordpress theme. I had this same issue.
    After few days of pain I decided to change my theme to standard WP theme(twenty ninety). reCaptcha appeared and form start working.

    So first you should do is change your custom theme to one of wp standard themes. If recaptcha works and the form does not give an error, then the problem is in your theme.
    In my case I forgot to add wp_footer(); in footer.php file

    If not… Well… Pray to the Dark Lord

    Recaptcha v3 worked for months and stopped working for no apparent reason.
    Also for me the @tezet code solve the problem.
    Thanks!

    giordx, please can you tell me where exactly to put that code? I can’t figure…

    Hi
    Has recaptcha been fixed, please? I had the same issue and i didn’t want to change my website code (i’m quite a begginer). So i’m waiting for the author to fix that.
    Thanks

    trickitpl

    (@trickitpl)

    @atanas77 go to appearance/themes-> theme editor -> header.php or header.your format, paste @tezet code in the head seciton.It can be just after <head>.

    I’m having the same problem. With reCaptcha keys set in the integration panel, 100% of the messages submitted to my contact form end up as spam, and my users see the “There was an error trying to send your message. Please try again later.” message in an orange box.

    For now, I am running without reCaptcha, but I added the example mail tags to implement Askimet in my form to try to contain any spambots.

    I hope to see a permanent fix soon that does not require modifying the theme code to fix this problem.

    Same problem here, suddenly contact form 7 no more sending mails when recaptcha v3 is activated…
    Any clue ?

    To whoever encounters this issue : make sure your header and footer structure is correct, with calls to wp_head and wp_footer. This might be your issue.

    Explanations : I did a quick landing page, and in order to simplify things I didn’t use header.php and footer.php but only did a front-page with header and footer included. The issue was then that the Contact Form 7 scripts were not included since I was not calling wp_head in my simple header, and my form was thus not sent in AJAX but making the page refresh. Correcting this (https://contactform7.com/why-isnt-my-ajax-contact-form-working-correctly/), also solved my reCaptcha issue.

    So if you too tried to go fast and took a few shotcuts, this might be your problem aswell ?? Cheers.

    I did a test activating a VPN and the error stopped.

    Apparently it is something related to my IP. it may be some blockage on the part of my hosting, or on the part of my internet provider.

    I will test other plugins and see if I can find a different solution than Contact Form 7

    See This Link:
    https://www.geminigeeks.com/bluehost-blocking-contact-form-7-submissions-409-conflict-error/

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by delaitec.

    I already solved it using the hCaptcha plugin on JetPack Forms.

    hCaptcha Link here:
    https://br.www.ads-software.com/plugins/hcaptcha-for-forms-and-more/

    If I build a new site and use CF7 and Recaptcha v3 – no problem.

    If I take on a client with an existing website that has a custom theme and is running CF7 and Recaptcha v2, and I upgrade them to v3 – this problem happens.

    Essentially what is happening is the token is not being passed and CF7 thinks the email is spam and stops it from being sent. If you go into your CF7 message settings there are 2 errors that produce the message, ““There was an error trying to send your message. Please try again later.” (that’s dumb, but that’s another issue). Change the second message to, “unfortunately our system incorrectly marked you as spam. Please contact via phone while we fix the issue”. Submit your form again, if that’s what message you get then that’s what the issue is.

    Here’s how I fix it:

    a. Try tezet’s code in the header.php file (post #6)
    b. Try dswsmith’s fix (post #19)

    Although these have worked for others, they have never worked for me. That’s when I invoke plan C;

    c. Download WP Forms plugin and set up a new form.

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