Installed translation files ignored on localized sites
Translation files are installed but the captcha still shows English or German text on localized sites.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
6 public reports · first reported 11 January 2023 · last reported 9 June 2025
What's going wrong
Site owners running German, Dutch, Italian or other non-English sites report that the captcha stays in English or German even after they installed or updated translation files. Some checked their locale settings and language packs from the translation site, and the strings still did not appear on the front end. Several spent hours on forum threads without a fix. Multilingual site owners are most affected, since a form in one language can show the captcha in another. A reliable language check or guided diagnostic for how the captcha loads its translations would help these owners.
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Products affected
Image CAPTCHA for Contact Form 7 and WPForms by HookAndHook (DSGVO/GDPR).
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Who has this problem
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