IMPress / Contact Form 7 SPAM Conflict

[johnnyrealestate]

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IMPress / Contact Form 7 SPAM Conflict

Description

[Description of the issue]
Our contact form on our website began giving the Red "There was an error trying to send your message. Please try again later." error message. Eventually we deactivated all plugins, and our form submissions started working again. By re activating plugins one-by-one, and testing the form in between each activation... Turns out it's IMPress. Why is IMPress now causing a SPAM error with form submissions?

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install and set up IMPress & CF7 on a wordpress site
2. Try to send a form
3. Deactivate IMPress
4. Send another form

Expected behavior: I expect both of these plugins to work together, IMPress also features a tab on Contact Form 7 for lead generations.

Actual behavior: Conflict between the two plugins. Forms sent off our website are throwing back SPAM error (discovered it's SPAM thru our custom error message)

##Version

Please fill out the following version information:
WordPress version: 5.8.3
PHP version: 8.1
IMPress plugin version: 3.0.8
Contact Form 7 version: 5.5.4

You can get this information from WordPress.

Additional Information

It seems IMPress was created to work with Contact Form 7 (being there is an IDX Broker tab in the Contact Form 7 plugin).

Would love to know if anyone knows why this is now happening, anything I can do to fix the issue... I've tried other form plugins (form ninja, etc) and they don't seem to work either.

[mikikiv]

Hi Johnny,
This sounds like it could potentially be resolved with the latest version of 3.0.8 that you can download from this repository. This updated version (I like to call 3.0.8+) has a few merged pull requests that weren't pushed out to Wordpress yet and will be added to it through IMPress 3.0.9

See the relevant PR here = #412

If downloading and replacing 3.0.8 from Wordpress with Github's version of 3.0.8 today doesn't resolve the issue let me know. I know having the same version number contain different code across different platforms doesn't make any sense at all... We are working on that

[johnnyrealestate]

Hey, I'm a total newb here. Do I just "add new" and upload the zip file, or do I have to delete the older version of IMPress and then upload the zip file? Thanks for the reply too :)

[mikikiv]

I would delete the old version just so that you know the new version is being taken.
And you've got it. Download the zip from Github, then upload it using the Add New - upload
Good luck @johnnyrealestate !