Matt Crawford

I had this problem but I resolved it by removing the buggy plugin “Really Simple CAPTCHA” which doesn’t work and installed this plugin instead https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wpcf7-recaptcha

Using recaptcha v2 again which works great.

I resolved my own problem. I removed the buggy plugin “Really Simple CAPTCHA” which doesn’t work and installed this plugin instead https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wpcf7-recaptcha

Using recaptcha v2 again which works great.

Just to show an example of that WP 5.1 breaks contact form 7 with recaptcha I have a sandbox site setup with a form at https://snapgeek.com/sg2/book-your-appointment which currently fails with the error “There was an error trying to send your message. Please try again later.”

This same form worked prior to WP 5.1. Only thing I changed was I did the upgrade to 5.1

• This reply was modified 6 years ago by Matt Crawford.

Right now it is running WordPress 5.0.3 as I reverted back from 5.1.
reCAPATCHA V3 is enabled & form is working as expected.

When I was running 5.1 with reCAPATCHA V3 the form failed to work, Once I deleted the recapatcha keys from the site the form would then work.

• This reply was modified 6 years ago by Matt Crawford.

I am in fact using reCAPTCHA V3. It works as long as my wordpress version doesn’t go to 5.1. As soon as I upgrade to 5.1 it breaks the form.

I’ve reverted my install of wordpress back to 5.0 and this form works now but if I upgrade again it breaks it. I have 4 wordpress sites and all of them suffer the same fate.

It’s not actually “resolved” because the only reason it is working atm is because I disabled reCAPATHA V3 which allows the form to work. If I have recaptcha enabled it doesn’t work since the website is running WP 5.1

• This reply was modified 6 years ago by Matt Crawford.

WP 5.1 breaks Contact Form 7 if you use reCAPTCHA v3

Big spam issues with reCAPTHA v3. Been getting flooded with spam ever since. I may have to switch to a different contact form

clearly a mistake. fixed!

Well my problem started when I moved my WP site to another VPS server for temporary reasons while I rebuilt the VPS server it was on.

When I moved it back it just started working again so I don’t have a real fix to share. Sorry.

Here’s the complete list of plugins that I found that slowed down my 3 wordpress websites.

I run my three sites without a cache service now as well and they run faster than ever.

Yes I ran into the same issue with at least 3 plugins. I found out which ones ran slow with the plugin p3 profiler https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/p3-profiler/ because I got tired of my website taking forever to load.

Once I removed the plugins that were causing the problems my website speed up dramatically.

I’ll let you know if I take the time to give Jetpack another go though I don’t really need Jetpack except for to try to Mimic how wordpress.com blogs work.