TL;DR – try removing reCaptcha and testing… there could be something amiss causing reCaptcha to give some indication that the submission is spam. My steps to create/fix the problem: [sitename].com was live on another host. Within Bluehost Pro Shared account: Developed WP site on [sitename].dev.[hosting].com Installed Contact Form 7 Integrated Akismet Integrated reCaptcha When ready to deploy live: Set [sitename].com as addon domain within bluehost to [subdomain].dev.[hosting].com Set [sitename].com name servers to Bluehost (ns1.bluehost.com, ns2.bluehost.com) Once Read More …