davidkonicek

@gdeleon101 No I haven’t found a fix. I stopped using Contact Form 7. I use the Avada theme, and they have their own form builder that works.

@takayukister Have you found out anything more regarding this issue? I’ve seen a few other people post about it, but none of them with a fix yet.

This is a common problem. I haven’t found a solution, and am considering changing all of my websites to use a different contact form with working captcha or other spam prevention. I have a lot of websites using Contact Form 7 all getting spammed every minute with form submissions. Here’s the support request I started: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/senders-message-failed-to-send-4/

The WP Rocket resolution didn’t help me. Does anyone have any insight on this? I’ve seen other people having similar problems since a Contact Form 7 update a couple months ago. I just tried version 2 and 3 of reCaptcha, and the checkbox doesn’t appear on my site for version 2, and version 3 just gives me the error message when clicking Submit on the form. Several of my websites have this problem, seemingly regardless of the theme or other plugins I’m using.

I have a similar problem, but when I click Submit, I get “There was an error trying to send your message. Please try again later.” which is the default message for an error when submitting the form. I created a topic about this a couple months ago, but it’s unresolved. (https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/senders-message-failed-to-send-4/) I can’t get Google reCaptcha version 2 or version 3 to work on any of my websites that uses different themes and plugins. I think the form submits in Chrome, but not any other browser. Sorry I don’t have a solution.

Genesis theme, and Avada on a different website that had the same problem.

Plugins:
AddToAny Share Buttons,
Admin Menu Tree Page View,
BE Subpages Widget,
Beaver Builder Plugin (Pro Version),
Better WordPress Google XML Sitemaps,
Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7,
Contact Form 7,
Contact Form CFDB7,
Content Aware Sidebars,
Display Posts,
Easy Social Feed,
Extra Product Options (Product Addons) for WooCommerce,
Falling Menu Fix,
Image Optimization service by Optimole,
Insert Headers and Footers,
Invisible Captcha,
Jetpack,
Lessify WordPress,
ManageWP – Worker,
MetaSlider,
Minimum Password Strength,
MonsterInsights – Forms Tracking Addon,
MonsterInsights Pro,
PayPal for WooCommerce,
Perfect Images (Retina, Thumbnails, Replace),
PowerPack for Beaver Builder,
Really Simple CAPTCHA,
Really Simple SSL,
Regenerate Thumbnails,
Rename wp-login.php,
Search & Replace,
SEO Ultimate,
Simple History,
Simple Image Sizes,
Sitemap,
Smush,
String Locator,
Sucuri Security – Auditing, Malware Scanner and Hardening,
WooCommerce,
WooCommerce Name Your Price,
WordPress Importer,
WP Google Maps,
WP Image Size Limit,
WP Rocket,
WP Simple Galleries.

I’m developing a new website for them that won’t have so much clutter.

Perhaps more importantly, here are the plugins that are active on all three websites with this issue:
Contact Form 7,
Image optimization service by Optimole,
ManageWP – Worker,
WP Rocket.

I got a response from Imagify. Unfortunately, WP Retina 2X is no longer supported, but they may add support in the future. If anyone knows of another good solution for creating retina and WebP images, please let me know!

Optimole might be one solution, but I haven’t tried it yet.

Not working for me either.

Instead of disabling the WP Server Stats plugin, I just went to the WordPress Admin -> WP Server Stats -> General Settings and set the “realtime script refresh” to “20000” to match my Heartbeat settings of running every 20 seconds.

OK I disabled a plugin called “WP Server Stats” and that fixed it. Good to know that plugins or maybe a theme could cause conflicts with this plugin, as usual I suppose.

Hey WebDragon,

I just noticed the plugin page does show “Requires PHP Version” although I don’t know when that info was added. For a less stressful fix, I just installed the previous version of the plugin, which I had on a different website. I’m not sure if previous versions are available for download from www.ads-software.com, but I thought that might help you in the future if that’s an option. Actually, this WP Rollback plugin allows you to install old versions: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-rollback/

OK, that must be the problem. I believe I have PHP version 5.3.28. I’ve been trying to get that upgraded to 7+ for awhile, but still waiting on my hosting provider. Once I get that upgraded, I’ll let you know if I still have any issues.

All-in-One WP Migration is the plugin I used. It needs to be installed on both the source site and destination site. It exported everything from the source site fine, however, I wasn’t able to import the backup file to the destination site. Then they suggested I upload the backup file to the plugins backup folder manually via FTP. At that point, on the destination site, in the WordPress Admin, I went to All-in-One WP Migration Backups and the file was listed there, so I restored that and it worked fine.

I successfully migrated my website using a different plugin. No need to resolve this for me.

Thanks. I now realize this is a more complex issue than I initially thought. I will continue to develop this feature and post my results here, but feel free to set this as resolved at any time if you want.