Just a heads up for people who just installed this – Spam email attacks

Hi Rodica, sorry for the delay. And for everyone else – after setting up Recaptcha and letting it run for a couple of days, the spam has completely stopped. This is good, so the Recaptcha is working and the forms continue to work. The downside is if you don’t setup Recaptcha, you’re basically going to get spammed to death.

I would suggest the plugin makers force users to setup Recaptcha by making it a requirement. Plugin users can opt-out of it if they want by turning it off, but I would recommend it’s on by default. There is too much risk with the spam that someone could phish their information or send malware links, etc. Thanks.

We’ll consider this but I am not sure if we can force users to use Recaptcha, because this wasn’t the case by now, and it would not be ok for a user that doesn’t want recaptcha to suddenly have it on the site, in the next update.

Hey there, no problem, glad I am able to help in some way. My recommendation would be to only require it for new users going forward, not for those who already downloaded it. If you can’t, then maybe some sort of warning/recommendation message saying to avoid spam you highly encourage users to turn on Recaptcha.