GDPR compliant captcha solution with dubious monetization
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This plugin seems lightweight enough and it gets the job done. Plus it’s GDPR compliant, which is a big ask these days. The translation works even in the free version if you know your way around “hacking” the WordPress database.
Translations not working:
If you’re having trouble with the language that’s being display for contact form 7 forms, the author of the plugin made the questionable decision that it should only work if you installed Contact Form 7 prior to the 21st of October 2023 or something like that. You can work around that if you go to your WordPress database and search for the key “cf7ic_timestamp” in your options table. If you set the value to “false”, the translation will magically start working (if the language setting of your contact form 7 is correct), even in the free version.
Language setting of Contact Form 7 forms:
Regarding the language of your forms: Contact Form 7 saves a meta variable for the language of each respective form and this is being done when you FIRST save the form. There is no way to change this meta variable unless you access your WordPress database directly (look for the post ID of the respective form in the postmeta table and there’ll be a “_locale” option).
Quick fix:
A quick fix is to change the language in your WordPress backend to your desired target language for your user account. And then simply re-create the form you want to show in the respective language from scratch. If you do that, your captcha will also match the respective language!
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