Contact Form 7

  • Cloudflare Turnstile – alternative to Google reCAPTCHA

    Cloudflare Turnstile – alternative to Google reCAPTCHA

    Cloudflare Turnstile is an alternative to an interactive CAPTCHA. Current Contact Form 7 has a native integration, so start there rather than adding a hand-written challenge script or another integration plugin. Create the widget In your Cloudflare account, create a Turnstile widget for the site’s actual hostname. Use the Managed mode recommended by Contact Form…

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  • How to get Contact Form 7 check-boxes and buttons on new lines

    If you’re using Contact Form 7 on your WordPress site for the contact form, you may have come across an annoying little problem when you add checkboxes or radio buttons and they all appear one after another on one line. Unfortunately there isn’t currently an easy or quick fix for this as the best solution…

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  • WordPress Tutorial – Contact Form 7 with CAPTCHA and Message Log

    A contact form needs to accept genuine enquiries as well as reject spam. Adding several unrelated CAPTCHA plugins is not automatically the best answer. Start with the spam protection your current Contact Form 7 version supports. Choose a supported integration Contact Form 7 documents native integrations for Cloudflare Turnstile, reCAPTCHA v3 and Akismet. Choose an…

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  • Upgrade Contact Form 7 to reCAPTCHA V3

    The vast majority of unwanted website contact form messages (spam) are created by ‘bots’ – software that finds contact forms and sends messages through them. Google’s reCAPTCHA is a way of protecting you against this spam and other types of automated abuse as it attempts to verify that the form is being filled in by…

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