Quote Originally Posted by giftmeister View Post
mc and David, I triple-checked all the obvious things.

The ZC installation is in a directory- xyz.com/abc - but that doesn't seem to be an issue to Google and I wasn't even able to enter the directory on the Google recaptcha page (no slashes allowed).

Then I just thought that it might be due to Java being disabled in my browsers, but I re-enabled it in IE and the page (refreshed, started over) still advanced without entering anything in the captcha box.
So, there is either something amiss with the installation or conflicting with another file/mod it would seem. I haven't looked at the newer installation instructions, but as I understand it is now possible to install google recaptcha without making modifications to any ZC 1.5.1 core files as a trigger was added in that could be used to provide the recaptcha. That said, an older version of the plugin provided direction to go into one (or more similar files) to add code to perform a check if the recaptcha was entered properly. If you look at those directions and then that file, you can see perhaps what is going wrong. There is a check that is needed: if the data is bad, then it stops flow and gives an error, if it is good, then it keeps on processing.