One of my regular site visitors reported a problem to me yesterday, via email: (1) he could compose a comment, and (2) he could check the little “I am not a robot” checkbox confirming to reCaptcha that he is indeed a human; but (3) he could not actually submit a comment.
Why not? Because there was no “Submit” button. (Current partial screen capture shown at top right.)
(As an aside, this is broken for me, too. And it appears to be broken for all three major browsers, as well.)
Edit to add: For the time being, I’ve disabled the “reCaptcha” mechanism, on the off-chance that the problem was with it rather than with WordPress’s generic verification process. So you won’t see the “I am not a robot” device for a while.
This will remain broken for — I hope — only a little while. But it will be a while.
In the meantime, if you’d like to comment to me about a post and have no other email address, you can always reach me at this one: runningaftermyhat AT johnesimpson DOT com. If you’d like your comment to be publicly posted, let me know that and I’ll be sure it gets added to the thread of comments below the corresponding post.
Sigh… just what I wanted to be fretting about at the start of a long weekend!
John says
The problem seems to be a broken theme (something like, y’know, a design template). I’ve been using a custom, professionally developed theme for 3-4 years now… which broke when the WordPress software itself was automatically upgraded a couple weeks ago.
For the time being, I’ve switched to another theme which preserves much of the basic RAMH look. It will quite possibly lack some features — I haven’t tested it fully yet — but at least the good old Submit button is back again.
(I’ll be turning reCaptcha back on, too, since that doesn’t seem related to whatever the problem was.)
Ziki Questi says
John,
I noticed the problem just now in Chrome, but not in Safari or Firefox (on my Mac).