{"id":18900320,"date":"2026-05-06T07:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/duplicate-submissions-when-user-double-clicks-submit\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T07:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:19:16","slug":"duplicate-submissions-when-user-double-clicks-submit","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/duplicate-submissions-when-user-double-clicks-submit\/","title":{"rendered":"Duplicate submissions when user double-clicks submit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hi,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019re seeing duplicate submissions on Contact Form 7 when a user double-clicks the submit button.<br \/><br \/>On double-click, we see two AJAX requests are sent almost simultaneously<br \/>CF7 processes both, so two emails are sent (confirmed via WP Mail Log).<br \/>This results in duplicate entries in our Google Sheets integration too.<br \/><br \/>We&#8217;ve tried: disabling the submit button on click \/ submit events (JS), locking the form using submit and pointer events, and server-side validation via wpcf7_validate to block duplicates<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, very fast double-clicks can still result in two valid submissions being processed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is there a recommended hook or method within CF7 to prevent processing a second submission while the first is still being handled?<br \/>Or reliably detect and reject duplicate submissions at the CF7 level?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18900320","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18900320","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18900320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18900320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}