{"id":11038365,"date":"2018-12-30T19:21:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T19:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/?post_type=topic&#038;p=11038365"},"modified":"2018-12-30T21:06:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T21:06:34","slug":"odd-end-to-a-great-plugin","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/odd-end-to-a-great-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Odd end to a great plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used Contact Form 7 on all my WordPress sites for years. This was my go-to contact form plugin. I loved its simplicity, intuitiveness and reliability (plus the beautiful Japanese images). In the December 2018 5.1 update, everything changed.<br \/>\nI am deeply perplexed by the author\u2019s decision to totally drop ReCaptcha version 2 and not include it in the update as an option along with version 3. Instead, the update requires ReCaptcha version 3, which on all 15 of my sites let in a flood of spam.<br \/>\nI am additionally baffled by his reticence to provide explanation for this bizarre decision that has created countless headaches across the Web. It&#8217;s as though the real author was kidnapped and forced at gunpoint to issue a toxic update.<br \/>\nA truly odd end to a great plugin.<br \/>\n&#8211;December 30, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-11038365","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-recaptcha-version-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/11038365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/11038365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11038368,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/11038365\/revisions\/11038368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11038365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}