fix(recaptcha): skip script registration on TEC Community Events pages

[wil-gerken]

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Changes proposed in this Pull Request:

Newspack's reCAPTCHA loads Google's api.js on every front-end page. When The Events Calendar Community Events is active and the publisher has configured TEC's own reCAPTCHA key, the TEC Community Events submission page also loads api.js with a different site key. Two api.js loading on the same page with different keys break reCAPTCHA resulting in errors when trying to submit a community event.

Newspack's reCAPTCHA client only protects form[data-newspack-recaptcha], form#add_payment_method, and form.checkout, so it was never protecting TEC forms to begin with. This change adds an early return in Recaptcha::register_scripts() when we're on a TEC Community Events submission page, preventing the conflict while leaving TEC's own reCAPTCHA spam protection intact.

Closes NPPM-2743.

How to test the changes in this Pull Request:

Setup:

1. Activate The Events Calendar and The Events Calendar Community Events.
2. In Newspack wizard → Connections → reCAPTCHA, enable reCAPTCHA (v2 or v3)
3. In WP Admin → Events → Settings → Addons, save a different reCAPTCHA site key (v2 or v3)
4. Log out or open an incognito window as reCAPTCHA only renders for logged-out users on TEC forms.

Reproduce the problem (on trunk, before this PR):

1. Visit /events/community/add/.
2. Open DevTools → Network, filter by api.js. Confirm two separate https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js requests load.
3. Fill in the community event form and submit. Confirm the form fails with an error.

 

Verify the fix (with this PR):

1. Reload /events/community/add/. Confirm only TEC's api.js loads, Newspack's is no longer present.
2. Fill in and submit the community event form. Confirm it submits successfully.
3. Load the homepage (or any non-TEC page). Confirm Newspack's api.js?render=<site_key> still loads (no regression).
4. Switch Newspack reCAPTCHA to the other version (v2 if you used v3, or vice versa) and repeat steps 1 and 3 to confirm the guard works regardless of version.
5. From repos/newspack-plugin/, run n test-php --filter Test_Recaptcha and confirm all 3 new tests pass.

 

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Pull request overview

Prevents a reCAPTCHA breakage caused by double-loading Google’s api.js (with different site keys) when The Events Calendar Community Events submission page is used alongside Newspack reCAPTCHA.

Changes:

• Add an early return in Recaptcha::register_scripts() on TEC Community Events submission/edit pages to avoid registering/enqueueing Newspack’s reCAPTCHA scripts there.
• Add unit tests covering script registration behavior on normal pages, TEC community pages, and when reCAPTCHA is disabled.

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File	Description
includes/class-recaptcha.php	Adds TEC Community Events page detection and bails early to avoid conflicting api.js loads.
tests/unit-tests/recaptcha.php	Adds unit tests validating script registration/enqueue behavior across page contexts.

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