recaptcha breaks form and required feilds

  • When I turn on Recaptcha, the form won’t send. When I turn off the recaptcha, the form sends. Over the last year, I have had issues with the form not sending, and the issue is intermittent, oftentimes solved by an update or turning off and on Recaptcha. Weird things like that. But this time, that did not fix the issue. The form won’t send with recaptcha on.

    At this point, I am losing confidence in the stability of having recaptcha on and would like to leave it off, but still have a way to prevent spam.

    I would like to present a possible solution, but I don’t have the skills to implement the programming without help.

    On my form, I have two text boxes. One for First Name: and one for Last Name:

    99% of the spam that comes through, has first and last in both boxes.

    Example:

    First Name: John Dow

    Last Name: John Dow

    Can you right a script that if these two boxes are the exact same, the form won’t send?

    in 13 years of bussines I have never had a real customer fill out the form with there first and last name in both boxes. Real people always fill it out correctly.

    First Name: John

    Last Name: Dow

    By requiring that these two boxes be different, would weed out a bunch of spam, at least the dumb bots. Then I would not have to rely as much on Recaptcha, which when on also slows down site speed.

    I hope you can make this happen,

    Thanks Brian

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  • Plugin Author Takayuki Miyoshi

    (@takayukister)

    recaptcha breaks form and required feilds

    What kind of impact does reCAPTCHA make on required fields?

    Thread Starter Benham Design

    (@benham-design)

    @takayukister the required fields statement was related to my suggestion to create a feature that would prevent the form sending if both first and last name fields were identical.

    basically the first and last name fields would be required, with some sort of “if statement” that if they were identical the form would not send.

    required to be filled in and required to be different

    Plugin Author Takayuki Miyoshi

    (@takayukister)

    You would be able to achieve it with custom validation, but I doubt if you really need it in the first place. Have you ever tried Akismet? I think using Akismet is the best approach for your case.

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