{"id":19014342,"date":"2026-09-08T11:55:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/hidden-conditional-required-fields-still-trigger-validation-errors\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T11:55:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:55:51","slug":"hidden-conditional-required-fields-still-trigger-validation-errors","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/hidden-conditional-required-fields-still-trigger-validation-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden conditional required fields still trigger validation errors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We found a bug in UACF7&#8217;s Conditional Logic feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Setup: CF7 6.1.7 + UACF7 3.5.49, both latest versions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Issue: fields inside a hidden [conditional] group (select and radio types) still trigger &#8220;required field&#8221; validation errors and block form submission, even though they are correctly hidden and listed in _uacf7_hidden_conditional_fields. This happens even with no duplicate field names and with the competing &#8220;Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7&#8221; plugin deactivated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your v3.5.0 changelog mentions fixing this exact issue for checkboxes (&#8220;Required Checkboxes Not Working with Hidden Conditional Fields&#8221;) \u2014 looks like select and radio fields have the same bug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a workaround we removed the required flag from affected fields, but that&#8217;s not a real fix. Happy to share the form export or site access to help reproduce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19014342","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19014342","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\/19014342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19014342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}