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.

Julian Lang

<p>Send Denial – a spam sentinel</p>
<p>This plugin will enable honeypot and other anti-spam techniques (in future versions) to protect your business and mailbox from automated script spammers. In “basic” honeypot mode there will be zero impact on your users. they won’t see a captcha or puzzle to solve, they can just use your websites forms. Plug and play</p>
<p>This plugin will be compliant with GDPR guidelines as it won’t call external apis or databases at all. In future versions there might be a local database table (in your database) where failed submissions (from bots) will be stored so you will have total control over the data.</p>
<p><strong>currently supported (protected) plugins include:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Caldera Forms</li>
<li>WPForms Lite</li>
<li>CF7 (Contact Form 7)</li>
<li>Ninja Forms (including ajax submissions)</li>
<li>Formidable</li>
<li>WooCommerce (registration, checkout, login)</li>
<li>Elementor Forms (Pro)</li>
<li>MC4WP</li>
<li>Jetform Builder</li>
<li>Ultimate Member (Registration Form)</li>
<li>FormCraft Premium</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>planned support for the near future:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>bbPress</li>
<li>Divi Forms</li>
<li>Fluentform</li>
<li>HTML Form</li>
<li>Gravity Forms</li>
<li>BuddyPress</li>
<li>Easy Digital Downloads Checkout</li>
<li>Toolset Forms</li>
</ol>
<p>This plugin will support as many popular plugins as possible for free. There is no intent to sell “premium” anti spam protection in the future. You can help to support costly formbuilders or other paid plugins by donating a little amout to help fund the licenses for the development environment.</p>


Send Denial

Anti-Spam protection for the most popular and widly used formbuilders and plugins. GDPR compliant.

Apio systems – Honeypot for Contact Form 7 vs Send Denial