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HighPots Spam Protection provides comprehensive, multi-layer spam protection for WordPress forms without relying on external services or user interaction. It works seamlessly with popular form plugins and uses advanced techniques to detect and block spam submissions.
Key Features:
<ul>
<li>Multi-Layer Protection: Combines multiple spam detection methods for maximum effectiveness</li>
<li>Secure Token Validation: Unique tokens prevent automated bot submissions</li>
<li>Honeypot Fields: Hidden fields that trap bots while remaining invisible to users</li>
<li>Rate Limiting: Prevents rapid-fire submissions from the same visitor</li>
<li>Timing Analysis: Detects suspiciously fast or slow form submissions</li>
<li>User Agent Validation: Blocks submissions with suspicious or missing browser identification</li>
<li>Referrer Validation: Blocks submissions that do not originate from your site</li>
<li>Writing System Detection: Blocks submissions containing unwanted character sets (Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese, etc.)</li>
<li>Privacy-Focused: IP addresses are automatically masked for GDPR compliance</li>
<li>No External Dependencies: Works entirely within your WordPress installation – no third-party services needed</li>
<li>Multilingual Support: Fully translated interface in 6 languages</li>
<li>Developer Friendly: Clean code structure with hooks for customization</li>
</ul>
Supported Form Plugins:
<ul>
<li>Contact Form 7</li>
<li>WPForms</li>
<li>Elementor Pro Forms</li>
<li>Gravity Forms</li>
<li>Formidable Forms</li>
<li>Generic HTML forms (automatic protection)</li>
</ul>
Need support for another form plugin? Contact us at support@highpots.com
Multilingual Support:
The plugin interface is fully translated and available in: 
* English (default) 
* German (Deutsch) 
* French (Français) 
* Spanish (Español) 
* Italian (Italiano) 
* Chinese Simplified (简体中文)
All admin interfaces, settings pages, error messages, and user notifications automatically adapt to your WordPress language setting.
Why Choose HighPots Spam Protection?
<ul>
<li>Easy Setup: Install, activate, and your forms are protected – no complex configuration needed</li>
<li>Privacy Compliant: Built with GDPR in mind – IP masking and configurable data retention</li>
<li>Fast & Lightweight: Won’t slow down your site</li>
<li>No Monthly Fees: No subscriptions or API limits</li>
<li>Detailed Logs: Track spam attempts and export data for analysis</li>
<li>Customizable: Fine-tune protection levels to match your needs</li>
</ul>
Need Help or Have Suggestions?
Visit our website at <a href="https://highpots.com/produkte/wordpress-plugins/anti-spam-protection/" rel="nofollow ugc">highpots.com</a> for support, documentation, and feature requests.
<h3>Privacy</h3>
This plugin is designed with privacy in mind:
<ul>
<li>IP Address Masking: IP addresses can be masked (e.g., 192.168.xxx.xxx) when displayed in logs</li>
<li>Minimal Data Collection: Only stores data necessary for spam protection</li>
<li>Configurable Logging: All logging can be adjusted or completely disabled</li>
<li>Data Retention: Configure how long logs are kept, or disable retention entirely</li>
<li>No External Services: No data is sent to external services or third parties</li>
<li>GDPR Compliant: Designed to meet GDPR requirements out of the box</li>
</ul>

HighPots Spam Protection

Multi-layer spam protection for WordPress forms with honeypot, rate limiting, token validation & comprehensive bot detection.

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Limit the number of login attempts possible both through normal login as well as using auth cookies.
By default WordPress allows unlimited login attempts either through the login page or by sending special cookies. This allows passwords (or hashes) to be brute-force cracked with relative ease.
Limit Login Attempts blocks an Internet address from making further attempts after a specified limit on retries is reached, making a brute-force attack difficult or impossible.
<h3>Basic Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Limit the number of retry attempts when logging in.</li>
<li>Configurable lockout timings.</li>
<li>Email notification of blocked attempts (Detailed email containing all necessary information).</li>
<li>Notify the user of remaining attempts.</li>
<li>Report containing all blocked attempts.</li>
<li>Whitelist/Blocklist of IPs (Support IP ranges).</li>
<li>Allow/Block Countries.</li>
<li>Automatically block IP addresses that exceed limit login attempts</li>
<li>Automatically add IP addresses that exceed blocks limit to the deny list</li>
<li>Send notifications about blocked retry (Email sent to admins)</li>
<li>Inform the user about the remaining retries or lockout time on the login page.</li>
<li>Unlock The Locked users – Easily unlock the locked admin through the email or dashboard.</li>
<li>Limit the number of retry attempts when logging in per IP.</li>
<li>Limit the number of attempts to log in using cookies.</li>
<li>Optional logging and optional email notification.</li>
<li>Compatible with Google captcha, Captcha Plus & reCaptcha.</li>
<li>Dashboard gives you an overview of your site’s security.</li>
<li>Enable or disable the plugin functionality</li>
<li>Enable to disable email notifications</li>
<li>Compatible with latest WordPress version</li>
<li>Woocommerce login page protection.</li>
<li>Wordfence & Sucuri compatibility.</li>
<li>GDPR compliant.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Advanced Features (PRO)</h3>
<ul>
<li>All Basic features included.</li>
<li>Save the password that was used by the hacker (Save part of the password and hide the last three digits).</li>
<li>Advanced dashboard gives you an overview of your site’s security (Charts for the most important reports).</li>
<li>Block attackers by IP, Country, IP range.</li>
<li>Mobile Application for the admins to follow up the site security (<a href="https://www.wp-buy.com/wp-content/uploads/apps/login-attempts-app.apk" rel="nofollow ugc">Download APK</a>).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Video Description</h3>
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<h3>Plugin Settings and Reports</h3>
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