Troubleshooting
Your Elementor form is not sending
Elementor forms fail in a handful of builder-specific ways. The page looks right in the editor, and that is exactly the problem — the editor is not what your visitor loads.
The field ID box was left blank
Every Elementor field has a label and, under Advanced, an ID. The label is what the visitor reads; the ID becomes the name the browser submits. Leave the ID empty and the rendered input gets an empty name, and a control with an empty name is dropped by the browser before it sends anything.
Nothing warns you. The editor preview looks correct, the form submits, and the value silently never existed. If it was the email field, every enquiry arrives with no way to reply.
Check: Edit the form, click each field, open Advanced, and confirm the ID box has a value. Blank means that field has never submitted.
No "Actions After Submit" were set
Elementor does not email anyone unless you add an action. A brand new form with no action collects the submission into the Elementor entries table and notifies nobody. People assume email is the default. It is not.
This one is recoverable — check Elementor → Submissions, because the enquiries may be sitting there unread.
Check: Form settings → Actions After Submit. If "Email" is not in the list, no email was ever attempted.
You are looking at a cached copy
Caching plugins and CDNs serve a stored copy of the page. Fix the form, and returning visitors can still be served the old broken markup for hours. On statically exported sites the fix does not go live at all until the site is exported again.
This is why a fix that "did not work" often did work, and was simply never served.
Check: Load the page in a private window with a cache-busting query string, e.g. ?x=1, and inspect that copy.
Spam protection is rejecting genuine submissions
If reCAPTCHA is enabled on the form but the script does not load on that page — common on statically exported or heavily optimised sites — no token is generated, and the endpoint refuses the submission for having no token.
The visitor sees a generic failure. Nothing is recorded. From the dashboard the day just looks quiet.
Every fault above renders a form that looks completely normal. That is the category FormHam watches for: not "did the email bounce", but "can this form physically submit what the visitor typed".
Frequently asked
Where do Elementor submissions go if no email action is set?
Why did it work in the editor but not live?
Does a blank field ID show any warning?
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