Title: Validation Error
Last modified: February 5, 2019

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# Validation Error

 *  Resolved [dantford](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dantford/)
 * (@dantford)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-error-67/)
 * Hi, we are receiving the following error whenever we try to submit a contact 
   form:
 * VALIDATION ERRORS OCCURRED. PLEASE CONFIRM THE FIELDS AND SUBMIT IT AGAIN.
 * We haven’t changed anything on the forms, and it was previously working absolutely
   fine. What might be causing this?
 * Thank you

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 *  Thread Starter [dantford](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dantford/)
 * (@dantford)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-error-67/#post-11171053)
 * This is happening on all three contact forms – not just one of them
 *  [Lukasz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpfed/)
 * (@wpfed)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-error-67/#post-11171512)
 * Try submitting the form and inspect each field using the web console to see if
   CF7 has added the invalid classes to any of them, you may be able to narrow down
   which field is causing you issues.
 *  [Neil Murray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzztone/)
 * (@buzztone)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-error-67/#post-11172836)
 * Does your form have any radio buttons?
 * Starting with version 4.9, Contact Form 7 (CF7) has made it mandatory to have
   an option checked for radio buttons. If a radio button is not selected, a validation
   error will appear.
 *  Thread Starter [dantford](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dantford/)
 * (@dantford)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-error-67/#post-11172845)
 * Cheers for the help guys, I’ve tried everything. No radio buttons on the forms
   and no clear reasons why it would be happening. I’ve decided to switch over to
   WPForms instead. So far very impressed!
 *  [mbmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbmedia/)
 * (@mbmedia)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-error-67/#post-11215814)
 * Hi, I seem to be having a similar issue with the validation errors. It has worked
   without any problems up to this point. It likely started occurring at the start
   of February 2019.
 * I have several forms on my site, but there is only one form that seems to have
   the problem. The form is integrated with MailChimp so people can subscribe to
   a newsletter. So far, I have tried the following with no solution yet:
 * – Disabled and deleted the Honeypot plugin
    – Created a new contact form (with
   the same info) – Created a radio button that needs to be selected by the user–
   Refreshed the cache and tried different browsers
 * Any other ideas to get this working again?
 * Here is [the link](http://eslexpat.com/newsletter/) to the contact form.
    -  This reply was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by [mbmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbmedia/).
    -  This reply was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by [mbmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbmedia/).
    -  This reply was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by [mbmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbmedia/).
 *  Thread Starter [dantford](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dantford/)
 * (@dantford)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-error-67/#post-11216085)
 * Hi mbmedia,
 * To be honest we were fed up with cf7 being unreliable – every time we did any
   updates on the site we had to check the contact forms were still working as any
   slight change on the website could knock them out and stop them working, even
   if the updates weren’t related to cf7! We decided to move to wpforms and we’re
   seriously impressed. So stable and no more reason to worry!
 * I do hope you get sorted, but I would definitely recommend the above.
 * Thanks
    Dan
 *  [mbmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbmedia/)
 * (@mbmedia)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-error-67/#post-11216545)
 * Thanks for the suggestion.
 * I may have to consider that in the future, but I have many forms that I would
   have to reconfigure. For now, I’m going to try re-posting this elsewhere to see
   if I can find a solution and keep CF7.

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-error-67/#post-11216545)
 * Status: resolved