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This brings up an interesting question. At what point does a plugin developer acknowledge any degree of responsibility to the user community? Or does @takayukister (Takayuki Miyoshi) ever have to. I am struggling to understand the lack of response on this issue.

We work with many development teams and individual developers, many are already going through the expense of replacing the plugin entirely. This is a black eye for WordPress, and for the developer.

What is happening in this moment is the unfortunate scenario as to why I personally prefer paid commercial plugins than free. The author is intentionally not responding to this issue (actively responding to other issues). When he did respond early on, he praised reCAPTCHA v3 (go through his reply history).

And then we, the users, feel rather trapped. We can’t really be that critical here.. this has been an amazing free plugin. “What right do we have to complain”.

Paying for mission critical functionality is pretty important (contact forms, security, content/field architecture, etc.).

@buzztone can you elaborate? Is it a poor practice because he’s editing plugin code or was the specific change a poor practice?

Just to be crystal clear, I started this post because I think many people assume a fix is coming out any moment due to how horrible v3 is working.

But, when I found this post from Takayuki (https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/recaptcha-v3-6/#post-10976555), I was no longer optimistic that a ‘fix’ would be coming.

You should see a Google reCAPTCHA icon hovering at the bottom right of the web browser when accessing a website that has reCAPTCHA v3 enabled through CF7.

That just confirms it’s installed correctly. Whether v3 works or not at reducing spam is up for debate.

Takayuki,

I have been using your plugin for I think 10 years now, or nearly 10 years. I can assure you that reCAPTCHA v3 based on how you currently have it configured with CF7 is horrible at stopping spam. My clients combined process 100-200 legit emails per day, and the quantity of spam that has come in over the last 48 hours is as if we did not have CAPTCHA at all.

Either we need the ability to change the score threshold, or the ability to use v2.

I agree that philosophically, v3 is vastly superior. But this is a scenario where blind trust in Google is not working out.

I sold this and feel like an idiot!
I combined get_pages with get_ancestors to count the tiers and it works flawlessly!!!

<?php $hierarchy = get_pages('child_of=8&sort_column=menu_order');

			foreach ( $hierarchy as $page ) {
				$acount = count(get_ancestors($page->ID, 'page'));

			?>

			<div class="tier_unit"><?php echo $acount; ?></div>

				<div class="tier<?php echo $acount; ?>">
					<div class="tier_title">
						<?php echo $page->post_title; ?>
					</div>

					<div class="page_type">
						<img src="/wp-content/uploads/<?php the_field('page_type',$page->ID); ?>.jpg" />
					</div>
				</div>

			<?php } ?>