How to Fix Contact Form 7 Errors: There was an error trying to send your message. Please try again later."

Here a quick guide on how to fix CF7 error messages.

Contact Form 7 plugin has three error types:

• Yellow
• Orange
• Red

You can find the meaning of each error message below.

Yellow Error

A Yellow error tells you there is a form validation error.

Error Message:

"Misconfiguration leads to mail delivery failure or other troubles. Validate your contact forms now."

Solution:

1. Go to your WordPress admin dashboard.
2. Click on the "Contact Forms" button.
3. Select on the "validate form now" button.

Orange Error

The orange error tells us that your form isn't sending because of spam issues.

Error Message:

"There was an error trying to send your message. Please try again later."

Solution:

1. Go to the "Contact" tab.
2. Click on integration.
3. Select "remove keys."
4. Go to the Google ReCaptcha page.
5. Sign in and create site ReCaptcha keys for your website (choose reCaptcha V2).
6. Add the new V2 site keys to the Contact Form

Red Error

The red error tells us that your website hosting/server is blocking WordPress from CF7 sending emails.

Error:

"There was an error trying to send your message. Please try again later."

Solution: Install a SMTP Plugin

1. Install WP Mail SMTP plugin or Mailgun plugin. These plugins help to fix the mail function or php mail sending error.

Still not working?

Deactivate any caching plugins (WP-Rocket, W3TC etc...) on your website, re-test.

Gravity Forms

I strongly recommend using Gravity Forms instead of CF7; it has a better GUI, has more advanced features, and is easier to use.