So much spam?!

  • Resolved Syd W

    (@woolgather18)


    5 years, 7 months ago

    Ever since I updated this plugin, we’ve been getting tons of spam emails. I searched here for a fix but they’re all so technical—can’t we just get the Recaptcha back, or something similar?
    Does anyone have a more simple fix to stop the spam? I really hope so because I don’t want to move to another plugin :/
    Thanks,
    – syd

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  • In my opinion these options work best:
    Configure Google Recaptcha. Or set up Akismet.

    As far as i know there is no quick fix for this.

    CF7 5.1.+ updated to reCAPTCHA v3.\

    You can use Contact Form 7 – reCaptcha v2 in addition to Contact Form 7. Once installed and configured it offers the same reCaptcha functionality you are used to in previous versions of Contact Form 7 (recommended by CF7 plugin author).

    Thread Starter Syd W

    (@woolgather18)

    Thank you—I just installed v2 and added the [recaptcha] tag but it’s not showing up. Wonder if I should disable the up-to-date CF and only enable the v2 one?

    Check you followed the instructions at Contact Form 7 – reCaptcha v2 – it does have a couple of specfic steps.

    Running an older version of CF7 is always not a good idea – for security reasons.

    Thread Starter Syd W

    (@woolgather18)

    Thank you, Neil (and preetinder). I think I found a workaround because neither of those options were working as effectively as I’d hoped. I spent last week trying different things and what I did was create a required checkbox that says “I’m not a robot.” It’s brought my spam email count down to zero for 2 days now.

    Hopefully, anyone else having the same problem can read this and try the same thing!

    I appreciate your help, have a great weekend ??

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