Riccardo Rosignoli

<p>🛡️ <em>DigitaleZen AntiSpam Shield for CF7</em> is a lightweight yet powerful plugin that protects <strong>Contact Form 7</strong> forms from spam, bots, and suspicious submissions.</p>
<p>It combines a <strong>multi-layered defense system</strong>, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Invisible honeypot field</li>
<li>Hourly-expiring SHA256 token</li>
<li>Automatic flood protection</li>
<li>Temporary IP firewall</li>
<li>Real-time blacklist updates every 24h (StopForumSpam, Spamhaus, SpamCop)</li>
<li>Advanced CSV logging</li>
<li>Interactive dashboard with chart and bot log</li>
<li>Weekly report via email (configurable)</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>✅ No complex setup. No CAPTCHA. No data collection.<br />
  Works out-of-the-box.</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>🔐 Invisible honeypot protection  </li>
<li>⏱️ Minimum send time (4 seconds)  </li>
<li>🔑 SHA256 token valid for 2 hours  </li>
<li>🧱 Soft IP firewall (10-minute ban)  </li>
<li>📩 Dynamic blacklist: IPs, emails, domains, keywords, usernames  </li>
<li>💥 Flood protection: 3 submissions = auto ban  </li>
<li>🧾 Detailed logging (date, IP, email, reason, trigger)  </li>
<li>📈 Interactive chart of blocked spam by type and timeframe  </li>
<li>📬 Weekly email reports  </li>
<li>🧘 Clean and minimalist DigitaleZen-style UI  </li>
<li>🔒 Admin-only dashboard access</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin periodically downloads an updated anti-spam blacklist from a service operated by DigitaleZen and hosted on Google Apps Script (domain: script.google.com).</p>
<p>• Purpose: fetch a JSON list of abusive/disposable emails and domains used by the plugin’s firewall checks.<br />
• When data is sent: once per day via WP-Cron (and when an admin triggers a manual update).<br />
• What data is sent: no form submissions and no user personal data are sent. The request is server-to-server (HTTP GET) and only standard headers (e.g., User-Agent) are included.<br />
• Storage: the downloaded JSON is stored locally within your WordPress site (e.g. under wp-content/uploads in a plugin-specific folder).</p>
<p>Provider policies (service owner): DigitaleZen — https://digitalezen.it/terms/ • https://digitalezen.it/privacy-policy/<br />
Hosting platform policies (infrastructure): Google — https://policies.google.com/terms • https://policies.google.com/privacy</p>


DigitaleZen AntiSpam Shield for CF7

The ultimate shield for Contact Form 7. Blocks spam with honeypots, tokens and a live blacklist—no CAPTCHA.

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<p>This is a highly powerful contact form  7 anti-spam add-on. It is introducing a new hidden field and check that one value is correct or not.</p>
<h4>Features of Contact Form 7 Honeypot Plus</h4>
<ul>
<li>No configuration is needed</li>
<li>Better anti-spam functionality</li>
<li>No need any ugly captcha.</li>
</ul>


Honeypot Plus for Contact Form 7

Nice plugin

Honeypot Plus for Contact Form 7 - Adds honeypot plus anti-spam functionality to Contact Form 7 forms.

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