Use Recaptcha V3 but only with the [recaptcha] tag?

  • Resolved Rick Curran

    (@rickcurran)


    9 months ago

    Hi, it looks like you can use Recaptcha V3 but still only have it implemented on forms which have the [recaptcha] tag, is this correct?

    I was originally going to use this plugin with Recaptcha V2 as a way to only have one specific form use Recaptcha, but if it’s possible to use V3 in the same way then this could be useful (especially if / when Google decide that V2 is no longer supported!).

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Author IQComputing

    (@iqcomputing)

    Hello,

    Unfortunately, there is no “per form basis” for Google ReCaptcha v3. Version 3 of ReCaptcha runs site-wide as it monitors the activity of the user throughout their entire session to detect if they are a real human. With v3 the [recaptcha] tag is obsolete. Contact Form 7 also natively supports v3 out of the box, so you will not need this plugin installed to run ReCaptcha v3.

    As of today, Google has no plans to retire ReCaptcha v2 [in the near future] and is still supporting both versions of ReCaptcha. Nothing lasts forever, though, but there is no deadline for v2 support.

    Thread Starter Rick Curran

    (@rickcurran)

    @iqcomputing Ah ok, thanks for making this work for V2, in this case my client only wanted reCaptcha on one form and also wanted the visible “I’m not a robot” checkbox to be visible as well!

    One thing to note about the wording in the settings in the “reCaptcha Version” panel, the first sentence does give the impression that you can use either version of Recaptcha but that you still need to use the [recaptcha] shortcode:

    Select the version of reCaptcha you would like to use. You will still need to use the?[recaptcha]?shortcode tag in your Contact Form 7 forms.

    Is this not correct? It does make sense that V3 would apply to all forms, if using the default reCaptcha V3 (and therefore applied to all forms) then it would seem like there’s no need to use this plugin at all?

    Plugin Author IQComputing

    (@iqcomputing)

    Hello,

    Thank you for pointing this out! I could certainly see how the phrasing could be misconstrued. We will reword this in the next version of this plugin to better convey that the [recaptcha] tag is only necessary for ReCaptcha Version 2.

    It does make sense that V3 would apply to all forms, if using the default reCaptcha V3 (and therefore applied to all forms) then it would seem like there’s no need to use this plugin at all?

    That is correct. Since Contact Form 7 supports V3 out of the box, you shouldn’t need to have this plugin installed to run ReCaptcha V3.

    Thread Starter Rick Curran

    (@rickcurran)

    @iqcomputing Great, thanks for the response, much appreciated!

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