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WordPress Plugin: Contact Form 7 reCAPTCHA v2

Introduction

Posted: 11th January 2019
Dave Barr / Last Update: 21st Feb 2020

Since version 5.1 (December 2018) it has been difficult to re-engage Contact Form 7 reCAPTCHA Version 2. The default is to enable Version 3, which to be honest I don’t believe is working correctly yet.

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Contact Form 7 Plugin

A long time favourite for its simplicity and feature set. The parent plugin works well and if you don’t need reCAPTCHA it’s great ‘out of box’.

I experimented with Version 3 enabled for two weeks across a variety of WordPress powered sites. Unfortunately the spam rate raised back to high levels. It was time to find a solution. Either convert to something like Ninja Forms or… *drumroll please*…

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Contact Form 7 reCAPTCHA Version 2

This plugin brings reCAPTCHA v2 functionality back and re-adds the [recaptcha] tag. If you already have the Version 2 API keys installed and configured it’s easy. All you need do is select the Version 2 option from the installed configuration page via the dropdown.

  • Contact Form 7 reCAPTCHA - Figure 01
  • Contact Form 7 reCAPTCHA - Figure 02
  • Contact Form 7 reCAPTCHA - Figure 03
  • Figure 01
    In the WordPress management backend select ‘Contact’ > ‘reCaptcha Version’.
  • Figure 02
    On the resulting page select ‘reCaptcha Version 2’ from the dropdown.
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    You can now go back to the old design and layout of CF7 forms and use the [recaptcha] shortcode again.

Download Contact Form 7 (wordpress.org)
Download Contact Form 7 reCAPTCHA v2 (wordpress.org)

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In Conclusion

A very quick and neat solution to a sticky problem. As of writing there have been no issues but I’m still looking into a longer term viable solution. If you have found a better solution (using CF7 & Version 2 of reCAPTCHA) I would love to hear from you.

Further Reading

  • Download Contact Form 7 reCAPTCHA v2 (wordpress.org)
  • IQ Computing Home (CF7 v2 Dev) (iqcomputing.com)
  • Download Contact Form 7 (wordpress.org)
  • Takayuki Miyoshi Home (CF7 Dev) (wordpress.com)
  • Google reCAPATCHA (google.com)

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