Title: Captcha is not required
Last modified: December 13, 2020

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# Captcha is not required

 *  Resolved [username201701](https://wordpress.org/support/users/username201701/)
 * (@username201701)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/captcha-is-not-required/)
 * I have installed the plugin and everything looks great, however, when I submit
   a form without solving the captcha, it’s sent fine. Therefore this plugin will
   not catch bots since solving the puzzle isn’t required.
 * How can I make the captcha feature required in order to submit the form?

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 *  [Kyle Charlton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ktc_88/)
 * (@ktc_88)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/captcha-is-not-required/#post-13786583)
 * Hello,
    Could you provide a link to your website so I can look at the form? Is
   the CAPTCHA placed at the bottom of the form just above the submit button? I 
   have heard some people have had issues when they placed the CAPTCHA at the top
   of the form.
 *  [wp_user1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wp_user1/)
 * (@wp_user1)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/captcha-is-not-required/#post-13860362)
 * Same issue here, we got a lot of SPAM the last weeks.
 * You can see the form here:
    [https://www.erbrecht-dav.de/kontakt/](https://www.erbrecht-dav.de/kontakt/)
 * Latest versions of Contact Form and Image Captcha Plugin.
    I am not sure, but
   perhaps the problem exists since the last update (we have SPAM since christmas)
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by [wp_user1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wp_user1/).
 *  [Kyle Charlton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ktc_88/)
 * (@ktc_88)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/captcha-is-not-required/#post-13866967)
 * I see what you mean, the CAPTCHA is being completely ignored.
    Do you have any
   other plugins installed for Contact Form 7? The last big update was a change 
   made to how the CAPTCHA is processed which resolved a conflict with “Contact 
   Form 7 Conditional Fields” by Jules Colle, which was made in November. There 
   is a Chance that it opened up a new conflict with another plugin or that another
   plugin may have updated since Christmas which now conflicts.
 *  [wp_user1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wp_user1/)
 * (@wp_user1)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/captcha-is-not-required/#post-13867019)
 * In our case we have Contact Form 7 – Dynamic Text Extension installed (version
   2.0.2.1) and Honeypot (1.14.1).
    I deactivated Honeypot now, but same problem
   occurs.
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by [wp_user1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wp_user1/).
 *  [Kyle Charlton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ktc_88/)
 * (@ktc_88)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/captcha-is-not-required/#post-13867456)
 * Do you have any caching plugins installed or did you have Google ReCAPTCHA installed
   at some point?
 *  [wp_user1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wp_user1/)
 * (@wp_user1)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/captcha-is-not-required/#post-13868133)
 * No, both not..
 *  [Kyle Charlton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ktc_88/)
 * (@ktc_88)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/captcha-is-not-required/#post-13872201)
 * I installed Contact Form 7 – Dynamic Text Extension and the CAPTCHA continued
   to work, so it does not look like a compatibility problem with that plugin.
 * Could you send me your site health info report?
    Go into **Tools -> Site Health**
   then click Info at the top, then click the **Copy site info to clipboard** button
   and send it to me by email, kyle at kccomputing.net
 * Also could you paste your contact form 7 form editor code here so I can see what
   it looks like?
 *  [wp_user1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wp_user1/)
 * (@wp_user1)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/captcha-is-not-required/#post-13872811)
 * Can’t find this health report..
 * Here is the Contact form.
 * I can send you access to the WP installation?
 * <p>Ihr Name (Pflichtfeld):<br />
    [text* your-name] </p>
 * <p>Ihre E-Mail-Adresse (Pflichtfeld):<br />
    [email* your-email] </p>
 * <p>Betreff:<br />
    [text your-subject] </p>
 * <p>Ihre Nachricht<br />
    [textarea your-message] </p>
 * [cf7ic]
 * <p>Datenschutzhinweis:</p>
    [acceptance acceptance-651]Mit der Übermittlung des
   Kontaktformulars stimmen Sie der [Datenschutzerklärung](https://wordpress.org/datenschutz/?output_format=md)
   zu.
 * <p>[submit “Senden”]</p><style type=”text/css”>
    .captcha-image { border: 0px
   solid white !important; } input[type=”checkbox”] { width: 35px !important; margin-
   left: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !auto; } .captcha-image label { float:
   left !important; width: 100px !important; clear: none !important; } </style>
 *  [Kyle Charlton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ktc_88/)
 * (@ktc_88)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/captcha-is-not-required/#post-13873013)
 * Some people have reported issues when they placed the [cf7ic] to far up the form,
   maybe try to move the shortcode just above the submit button and see if that 
   resolves the problem.
 * [cf7ic]
    <p>[submit “Senden”]</p><style type=”text/css”>
 *  [wp_user1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wp_user1/)
 * (@wp_user1)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/captcha-is-not-required/#post-13873164)
 * No Change..
 *  [Kyle Charlton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ktc_88/)
 * (@ktc_88)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/captcha-is-not-required/#post-13873188)
 * If you want to create me a temp login to your site, I can take a closer look,
   just send the login info to
 * > kyle at kccomputing.net
 *  [wp_user1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wp_user1/)
 * (@wp_user1)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/captcha-is-not-required/#post-13873213)
 * yeah I already sent you a mail, perhaps in SPAM?
 *  [Kyle Charlton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ktc_88/)
 * (@ktc_88)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/captcha-is-not-required/#post-13873237)
 * I’m not seeing it, could you send me the credentials through my contact form?
   
   [https://kccomputing.net/contact-me/](https://kccomputing.net/contact-me/)
 *  [Kyle Charlton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ktc_88/)
 * (@ktc_88)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/captcha-is-not-required/#post-13877570)
 * I figured it out.
    The Image CAPTCHA plugin uses php code that only works on 
   PHP version 7+. Your site is running PHP version 5.6.40
 * I will look into backwards compatibility, for now, I would suggest turning off
   or deleting the plugin.

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 * Last reply from: [Kyle Charlton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ktc_88/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/captcha-is-not-required/#post-13877570)
 * Status: resolved