Captcha text cannot be translated cleanly
Captcha wording and placeholders are hard-coded in English, so non-English sites cannot translate them cleanly.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
6 public reports · first reported 21 April 2022 · last reported 15 August 2025
What's going wrong
Site owners running Contact Form 7 in German, French and other languages report that the captcha question wording, the placeholder and parts of the label stay in English.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 6 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.