Title: Prevent multiple submissions
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Prevent multiple submissions

 *  [ronin Creativos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/legion1978/)
 * (@legion1978)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prevent-multiple-submissions/)
 * Hi
    while the form is sending (spinning icon) some user just keep pushing the
   submit button, resulting in several form submissions. How can i prevent this?
   thakn you!
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 *  Plugin Author [Takayuki Miyoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takayukister/)
 * (@takayukister)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prevent-multiple-submissions/#post-7194254)
 * Make the success message more noticeable.
 *  Thread Starter [ronin Creativos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/legion1978/)
 * (@legion1978)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prevent-multiple-submissions/#post-7194258)
 * hi,
    unfortunately, its not that simple. these folks tend to hit the send button
   many times *before* any message (error or success) is shown, in hopes the message
   is “delivered faster” so to speak, resulting in several submissions sent.
 * i did manage to disable the send button on press, via jquery in a customized 
   page template/footer (clicking in a control of the form will enable it again,
   so user can make corrections or fill up required fields). not perfect, but lets
   see how effective it is 🙂
 * i figure cf7 would have to disable the button on click, make the proper checkings(
   when its showing the spin image) and if everything is ok, send the message. otherwise,
   give the alert response and re-enable the submit button. i could have tried do
   this in cf7 directly but then i would have lost the changes upon plugin update..
 * thanks anyway 🙂
 *  [Epsiloncool](https://wordpress.org/support/users/epsiloncool/)
 * (@epsiloncool)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prevent-multiple-submissions/#post-8266502)
 * Hi, I found a good solution for this. Quite simple but very effective.
 * [http://epsiloncool.ru/programmirovanie/preventing-multiple-submits-in-contact-form-7](http://epsiloncool.ru/programmirovanie/preventing-multiple-submits-in-contact-form-7)

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## Tags

 * [multiple](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multiple/)
 * [send](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/send/)
 * [submission](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/submission/)
 * [submit](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/submit/)

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 * Last reply from: [Epsiloncool](https://wordpress.org/support/users/epsiloncool/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prevent-multiple-submissions/#post-8266502)
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