Gerry Manzari

Manzari Anti-Spam Shield protects your WordPress comment forms from automated spam using multiple layers of defense:
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<li>🔒 Hidden honeypot field to catch bots</li>
<li>⏱️ Submission timing detection to block fast spam bots</li>
<li>🧠 Keyword blocking for suspicious phrases</li>
<li>✅ Optional Google reCAPTCHA v2 Checkbox</li>
<li>📊 Dashboard widget showing total spam blocked</li>
</ul>
Lightweight, fast, and privacy-friendly — no unnecessary external calls (unless you enable reCAPTCHA). 
Built for performance, simplicity, and full WordPress.org compliance.
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin uses Google reCAPTCHA v2 to help protect comment forms from automated spam.
When reCAPTCHA is enabled, the plugin loads the Google reCAPTCHA script from: 
https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js
When a comment form is submitted, the plugin sends the following data to Google for verification: 
• The reCAPTCHA response token 
• The user’s IP address 
• Your site’s secret key
This verification request is sent to: 
https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify
Google reCAPTCHA is provided by Google LLC. 
Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms 
Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Manzari Anti-Spam Shield

A lightweight anti-spam plugin using honeypot, timing, keyword, and reCAPTCHA v2 Checkbox protection. Blocks bots silently while keeping UX clean.

IQComputing

Contact Form 7 v5.1 dropped support for reCaptcha v2 along with the <code>[recaptcha]</code> tag December 2018. This plugin brings that functionality back from Contact Form 7 5.0.5 and re-adds the <code>[recaptcha]</code> tag.
If this plugin is installed before updating Contact Form 7 from v5.0.5 to v5.1.1 then it will carry over your old API keys. At that point you will just need to head to this plugins settings page to tell the website to use reCaptcha v2.
Once installed and configured it should be the same reCaptcha functionality you are used to in previous versions of Contact Form 7.
<h3>IQComputing</h3>
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<li>Like us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/iqcomputing/" title="IQComputing on Facebook" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook</a></li>
<li>Follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/iqcomputing/" title="IQComputing on Twitter" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a></li>
<li>Fork on <a href="https://github.com/IQComputing/wpcf7-recaptcha" title="IQComputing on Github" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a></li>
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ReCaptcha v2 for Contact Form 7


I have multiple forms based on CF7 on my site and default reCAPTCHAv3 implementation sometimes blocked the submission for no apparent reason.



This plugin allows me to decide which forms should be protected and which not. And also uses reCAPTCHAv2 which makes the rejection process much more transparent to user.


Perfect match for my site


You fix this stupid plugin the creators of Contact Form 7 to remove the ReCaptcha v2.The problem is all themes are integrated with them


Thank you!

Adds reCaptcha v2 from Contact Form 7 5.0.5 that was dropped on Contact Form 7 5.1

Manzari Anti-Spam Shield vs ReCaptcha v2 for Contact Form 7