v4.1.8 breaks comment form

Can you give me an example of a form that this is happening to?

Or how the form was customized?

I cannot provide an example right now because I reverted the update.

My hunch is that it is this commit: https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/changeset/2434713/akismet

Looks like “All fields are required” is a generic error for my site passed into wp_localize_script when loading the JS.

I’m testing locally and will post updates here.

What are you using to require that all fields are filled in? Is it a custom plugin you wrote, a plugin from www.ads-software.com, or something in your theme?

Not the most elegant code.. but this is from my theme and validates the comment form:

    $form.find('input:not([type="file"]),textarea').each(function () {
      if (!$(this).val()) {
        valid = false;
      }
    });

    // if invalid, show the "all field required" warning

It looks like the update added a honeypot? with the extra textarea ak_hp_textarea. At any rate, refactoring the JS will fix this. Thanks for the quick reply.

Yeah, I agree with your assessment. If this proves to be an issue with more people, we might have to look at giving the Akismet textarea a default value, but thanks for the heads up about it.

The simplest fix would probably be to add :visible to the selector, so you’re only checking if visible form fields have been filled in.