I am a robot?

I’m getting the same issue. I’ve installed and activated the plugin. I’ve added my site and private key. I’ve generated and added the tag to the Contact Form 7 contact form.

I browse to the form and the new Google No Captcha ReCaptcha displays correctly, I fill in all the fields, click the “I’m not a robot” checkbox which turns into a green check, then I click “Send” and I get back the error “It seems that you are a bot, Please try again.” and “Validation errors occurred. Please confirm the fields and submit it again.”

I dug in a bit more and the raw code being returned by Google is “invalid-input-secret”

https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/verify

Which Google says means “The secret parameter is invalid or malformed.”

I let the 3 minute timer on the page run out such that the session expired giving me an opportunity to click the checkbox a second time. I did so and it gave me a recaptcha image challenge which I completed and clicked verify at which point it worked. I was able to submit a contact form and got it in email.

I tried this all again later, failed the first time, then the session expired, tried as I did before, filled out a captcha image but this time got the same error again.

I went in to check that my keys were still there, they were but they were different from what showed in Google. Not sure how this happened. I re-copy-pasted by site and secret key and tried again and it seems to be working now.

You got farther than me.

How did you find the verify Google return data? I thought I looked everywhere. For all I know, I *could* be a robot! ;0)

Anyway, I followed your “wait for the timeout” procedure and still receive the error.

I even tried recopying the keys.

Would have been nice to make this work…

Hi ldlester,
Can we know which version of PHP are you using?

Hi! Thanks for not just giving up on me!

PHP Version: 5.3.3

Hi ldlester,
We have found that there where some major changes in PHP 5.4 and we had tested our plugin in PHP 5.4+ . We will test it on lower versions of PHP also and get back with a fix soon.

Thanks for reporting this ??

Hi!

No big hurry on that. I needed to get the site up right away. So, I went in another direction.

I did leave the sandbox site up if you would like for me to test a fix you create for 5.3.3.

Thanks for your efforts!

Hi WisdmLabs,

I’m facing the same problem.

Followed your instruction at https://wisdmlabs.com/blog/no-captcha-recaptcha-plugin-contact-form-7/

But still get “It seems that you are a bot, Please try again.”

I’m using php 5.6.4.

Thanks.

Update :
It all works after I downgrade my php to php 5.5.

Thanks.

Hi sirapdol,
We have resolved the problem related to php 5.6+ in the current update.
Thanks.

Hi ldlester,
Please check if the current changes works for you @php 5.3.
Thank you.

I just installed this plugin for my website, however I am having a problem with recaptcha thinking that I am a robot. At first I thought there was a problem with Contact Form 7 so I removed the recaptcha from the form and tested it. It worked perfectly. But when I re-added the captcha to the form, I would click the check box and the animation would start and the check would turn green. I would hit the submit button but then the error would show in red that “It appears that you are a robot.”

My php is 5.3 so other than that I am unsure of what to do from my end. Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Hi lancermonna,
Please check if you have entered secret key properly in the settings page.Also check in your php ini if allow_url_fopen is set to on as shown below.
allow_url_fopen = On

Thank You.

Thanks WisdmLabs! I had the same “session expiry” problem. Modify the php ini has solved it.

Thanks so much WisdmLabs! That fixed my problem and my form works like it should.