Title: Gravity forms and WP-spamshield
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Gravity forms and WP-spamshield

 *  Resolved [teacdan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/teacdan/)
 * (@teacdan)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gravity-forms-and-wp-spamshield/)
 * Hi1
    let me start thanking you for such an excellent plugin. It has saved my 
   site since I installed it thanks a lot!
 * Recently I noticed that the forms submitted using Gravity forms are being marked
   as spam so for some reason gravity forms is not generating the post (draft).
   
   This started happening about 1 week ago. It was working fine before. Not sure
   but I guess it has to do with a rencent WP-spamshield update.
 * Any suggestions?
 * thanks a lot!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-spamshield/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-spamshield/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [redsand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redsand/)
 * (@redsand)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gravity-forms-and-wp-spamshield/#post-6202945)
 * Hi teacdan,
 * Thank you for getting in touch regarding this issue. I’m sorry to hear about 
   the issue with your Gravity Forms. We’ll look into that and help you fix the 
   issue.
 * I’ll need a bit more info from you on the specifics, and we’ll need to email 
   back and forth, so please head over to the [WP-SpamShield Support Form](http://www.redsandmarketing.com/plugins/wp-spamshield/support/),
   and take a moment to fill out a support request. That will allow us to take care
   of this as quickly as possible for you (and anyone else who is experiencing the
   same issue).
 * – Scott
 *  Plugin Contributor [redsand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redsand/)
 * (@redsand)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gravity-forms-and-wp-spamshield/#post-6203131)
 * teacdan,
 * Thanks for getting in contact with us, and allowing us to help you fix this issue.
 * For anyone else reading this, we figured out what was causing the issue, and 
   is fixed in version 1.9.0.4.
 * – Scott
 *  [PXMstaff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pxmstaff/)
 * (@pxmstaff)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gravity-forms-and-wp-spamshield/#post-6203188)
 * Sorry to say that WP-Spamshield Version 1.9.5.7 and Gravity Forms 1.9+ are at
   odds again.
 * **Deets:** Multi-site installation, WPEngine (non shared)
    Combo works fine in
   staging environment, but shuts down submissions on the live site with the following
   error:
 * “ERROR: Sorry, there was an error. Please be sure JavaScript and Cookies are 
   enabled in your browser and try again.”
 * Our last successful form submission was July 28. We had no issues prior to August
   so it has to be the latest updates.
 * **Sidenote: **
    Strangely, if you’re logged into the site, the forms submit, 
   fire off notifications and the entry is recorded.
 * **Additional Testing:**
    Installed Spamshield on a non-multisite that also uses
   Gravity Forms. Form submissions also failed.
 * _Disabling Spamshield takes care of the problem. _
 * We LOVE Spamshield and thank you for your hard work. Will keep an eye out for
   new updates.
 *  Plugin Contributor [redsand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redsand/)
 * (@redsand)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gravity-forms-and-wp-spamshield/#post-6203189)
 * Hi PXMstaff,
 * I’m sorry to hear about the issues you’re having, but I’ll be happy to help.
 * Gravity Forms has been tested to work well with the latest versions, including
   1.9.5.7, so it’s likely there is another conflict in play…something more specific
   to your setup and combination of plugins.
 * We’ll be happy to look into it and help you fix the issue.
 * I’ll need a bit more info from you on the specifics, and we’ll need to email 
   back and forth, so please head over to the [WP-SpamShield Support Form](http://www.redsandmarketing.com/plugins/wp-spamshield/support/)(
   our main support channel), and take a moment to fill out a support request. That
   will allow us to take care of this as quickly as possible for you (and anyone
   else who is experiencing the same issue).
 * To help you as a temporary fix in the mean time, I have good news…there is no
   need to disable the entire plugin…there is an option in the settings to disable
   Gravity Forms anti-spam. Also, if you haven’t had a chance to yet, please take
   a few minutes to work through the [Troubleshooting Guide](http://www.redsandmarketing.com/plugins/wp-spamshield/troubleshooting-guide/)
   and [FAQs](http://www.redsandmarketing.com/plugins/wp-spamshield/faqs/) as these
   tend to help resolve most user issues.
 * Regarding the issue going away while you’re logged in…it doesn’t test logged 
   in admin users, as there is no need to.
 * Thank you for the great feedback. 🙂 We will keep working hard to keep spam out
   of your site.
 * – Scott
 *  Plugin Contributor [redsand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redsand/)
 * (@redsand)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gravity-forms-and-wp-spamshield/#post-6203190)
 * Hi PXMstaff,
 * We did some more testing with version 1.9.5.7 and 1.9.5.8 to see if we could 
   find any issues with the Gravity Forms submissions. In most variations of the
   forms we didn’t find any issues, including with and without AJAX. However we 
   did find one issue that we weren’t aware of, and that hadn’t been reported yet.
   It was specifically with the combination of multi-page forms, when the “Enable
   AJAX” option was selected the page would hang when proceeding to the second page.
   It was clearly a JavaScript conflict. (Multi-page forms without that option selected
   were fine, and single page forms with and without that option were fine.) We 
   zeroed in on the issue, created a fix, and will have an updated version out shortly.
 * Just wanted to give you a heads up in case that was your specific issue.
 * – Scott
 *  Plugin Contributor [redsand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redsand/)
 * (@redsand)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gravity-forms-and-wp-spamshield/#post-6203191)
 * Version 1.9.5.9 was just released.
 *  [Summer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fpmsummer/)
 * (@fpmsummer)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gravity-forms-and-wp-spamshield/#post-6203192)
 * Wait, what? I’m glad there’s a fix for the multipart forms issue (and I’ll try
   that out post haste), but I had used your website’s contact form to submit that
   issue on behalf of a client about 3 weeks ago… somewhere between August 8-10.
 * I had to have them switch to a different antispam plugin in the meantime so their
   form would work, but finding out that you never got my report on the problem (
   with many details and the test form you could try out the problem on) is a bit
   of a concern.
 * On their multipart form, it wouldn’t hang on the second page, it would proceed
   just fine through a varying number of pages, but hang on the final page, when
   the submit button was clicked, and at the time, disabling the email harvester
   option did not resolve it.
 * I will contact them to see if they want to test out the fix and see if it works
   for them… thanks!
 *  Plugin Contributor [redsand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redsand/)
 * (@redsand)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gravity-forms-and-wp-spamshield/#post-6203193)
 * Hi Summer,
 * Yes, the issue is fixed. I’m sorry to say we never received a support request
   from you on our site. I checked through the logs as well (anything submitted 
   is logged even if blocked) and there was nothing like that in the logs from Aug
   7-14. Is it possible that you submitted on another site?
 * I’m really sorry that you waited so long for a a response…we would never keep
   you waiting like that. It must have seemed like were were ignoring you. (Which
   we would never do.) If you submit a support request with us, you will hear from
   us within a few hours to 1 day at the most. To be sure, in the future, make sure
   you submit your support request here: [WP-SpamShield Support page](http://www.redsandmarketing.com/plugins/wp-spamshield/support/).
 * Yes, feel free to have them test out the new version. They should be good to 
   go.
 * Let us know if we can help with anything else.
 * – Scott

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