Problem with Captcha-bws plugin

Hi there,

Thanks for the report. Just to confirm, is this the plugin you’re talking about?
https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-captcha/

Best,

Marc

Thanks. This plugin is currently closed, so I can’t download it to test. It says that it’s temporary, but it might indicate an issue with the plugin.

If you tried only once, right after re-activating, it might be because the page wasn’t cached (it needs to be visited once to generate the cache file).

If the captcha is loaded via PHP, it will not work the following times.
You then might want to add the page where the captcha is to list to exclude from cache in the cache advanced settings.

Currently the only way this could happen is if the captcha is loaded via javascript (like reCaptcha for example). The whole page is stored in the cache, and at the moment we can’t add or remove parts from it. This would also reduce the efficiency of the cache system.

Hi Steve,

Is this the expected behaviour, or an issue (not sure from what you say above)? If it’s an issue, maybe you can share your website’s URL so I can take a look at what’s happening.

Thank you for the details.
So you shouldn’t have to disable and enable this option.
You can just press the Purge cache button below (not sure how it’s called in Italian).

In any case, you shouldn’t have to purge the cache for this to work, as the captcha plugin uses javascript to enable the functionality.

But I’ve noticed that it uses the “nonces” system, so you should set the cache lifespan option to maximum 8 hours:

You can, but I would keep it a bit higher, otherwise the cache might not be very useful, unless if your site has many visitors per hour.

Does the error happen for the first person who comments as well, or only for the next ones?