Title: Suddenly requiring fields
Last modified: February 10, 2018

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# Suddenly requiring fields

 *  [petplayhouseinc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petplayhouseinc/)
 * (@petplayhouseinc)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/suddenly-requiring-fields/)
 * Two days ago the form started requiring all of the fields from the text “YOUR
   DOG’S INFORMATION (Dog #2)” and below. Those should not be required fields. For
   years we have not updated this form and have not had issues, and made no updates
   or changes within the last several days. I cannot get it to stop requiring those
   fields.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fsuddenly-requiring-fields%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [tiitus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tiitus/)
 * (@tiitus)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/suddenly-requiring-fields/#post-9964401)
 * Hi,
 * All the textareas and text fields are not required from what I can see.
 * But maybe check out the documentation about radio buttons:
 * > radio represents a group of radio buttons (<input type=”radio”> in HTML). Note
   > that there is no required version of radio (“radio*”). The reason Contact Form
   > 7 doesn’t provide “radio*” is because a radio button is a required field by
   > nature
 * Maybe you should consider updating the form a tad(if you really have not done
   so in years :o) to meet your needs a bit better?

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/suddenly-requiring-fields/#post-9964401)
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