Joris Le Blansch

<p>I like to use Contact Form 7 on most of my WordPress sites. It’s a powerful form manager that suits all my needs. I don’t like to use external calls to protect the forms from spam submissions though (like reCaptcha or hCaptcha) and don’t want to present a manual captcha to a user (math or other puzzle). Since I couldn’t find a really basic honeypot script that works on most entries, I created one here. Hopefully it’s useful to someone else also.</p>
<h3>Setup</h3>
<ul>
<li>Install the plugin using the regular plugin setup routine or upload the entire apiosys-honeypot-cf7 folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.</li>
<li>Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress, you MUST have Contact Form 7 AND Flamingo installed and enabled.</li>
<li>Add the following shortcodes to your Contact Form 7 forms:</li>
</ul>
<p>[honeypot] – Adds the hidden honeypot field<br />
[timestamp] – Adds time-based validation</p>
<ul>
<li>Complete the rest of the options which you can find in Admin > Contact > Honeypot. A generally good working set of values is enabled by default there.</li>
</ul>
<h3>What tests are used?</h3>
<ul>
<li>A Honeypot Field</li>
<li>A Checkbox Trap</li>
<li>Time-Based Validation</li>
<li>Email domain Check</li>
<li>Basic Content Analysis</li>
</ul>
<h3>Does it really work?</h3>
<p>It has been tested on several high-traffic WP sites. I see a return of ~ 1 ‰ (i.e. 1 in a thousand) of spam going through. That usually corresponds to humans paid to fill forms or sophisticated bots. Please feel free to contribute to make it even better. You can contribute directly <a href="https://github.com/apio-sys/apiosys-honeypot-cf7" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</p>


Apio systems – Honeypot for Contact Form 7

Basic Honeypot plugin for Contact Form 7 to drastically reduce spam on form submissions without user interaction.

Martín Gómez

RaiolaNetworks

<p><strong>Honeypot Anti-Spam</strong> stops comment spam in WordPress using the honeypot technique – with <strong>no captcha</strong>, no puzzles and nothing for your visitors to solve.</p>
<p>Spam bots automatically fill in a hidden field that real visitors never see. The moment they do, the comment is flagged as spam. The result: cleaner comments, zero friction for genuine users and no annoying CAPTCHA.</p>
<h4>Why Honeypot Anti-Spam?</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>No captcha</strong> – completely invisible to visitors, nothing to type or click.</li>
<li><strong>Zero configuration</strong> – install, activate, done. There are no settings to touch.</li>
<li><strong>Lightweight and fast</strong> – a tiny script with no bloat and no impact on page speed.</li>
<li><strong>Privacy friendly</strong> – no external services, no tracking, no data leaves your site.</li>
<li><strong>Native WordPress comments</strong> – works out of the box with the standard comment form.</li>
</ul>
<h4>How the honeypot technique works</h4>
<p>The honeypot antispam technique adds a hidden field to your comment form via JavaScript. A legitimate visitor never sees this field and therefore never fills it in. Spam bots, however, detect it and fill it in, so the comment or submission is immediately classified as spam.</p>
<p>Honeypot Anti-Spam has NO options and NO configuration. To get it working you only have to install and activate it. Nothing else.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong><a href="https://raiolanetworks.com/blog/anti-spam-wordpress/" title="Information and support" rel="nofollow ugc">More information and support</a></strong></li>
</ul>
<h3>Bundled by default with</h3>
<p>Raiola Networks WordPress hosting service.</p>


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