Can a Recaptcha plugin be used with Contact Form 7

  • Jasnick

    (@jasnick)


    9 years, 5 months ago

    Have just switched to using WordPress for websites and am getting a huge amount of Comments showing up on the Dashboard even though I use only pages and no Posts or Comments. I am using Contact Form 7 with its own Captcha, on all my sites. My hosting company suggested using wp-recaptcha or google-captcha. Is that as well as the CF7 one or as an alternative? Thanks

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/

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  • Plugin Author Takayuki Miyoshi

    (@takayukister)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    First, Contact Form 7 has nothing at all to do with the huge amount of comments. Comment is WordPress’s feature, Contact Form 7 is a plugin providing mail forms, they are different things.

    Contact Form 7 doesn’t support reCAPTCHA by default, but there are 3rd party add-on plugins that add reCAPTCHA fields into Contact Form 7 forms.

    Thread Starter Jasnick

    (@jasnick)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    I didn’t mean to imply that the Contact Form 7 is causing spam – far from it – its s great form. I might try a reCaptcha 3rd party plugin to see if it makes a difference. I was really wondering why a 3rd party plugin was necessary if I use the CF7 captcha tag generator.

    Plugin Author Takayuki Miyoshi

    (@takayukister)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    No, I meant that you’re seeing comment spam, not contact form spam, so trying reCAPTCHA add-on for Contact Form 7 is unlikely to change your situation.

    See Comment Spam on Codex.

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