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.

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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