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<p>Addon for Contact Form 7 that creates a new kind of input that contains the URL of the page the user visited before the contact form page. This plugin works well with cache plugins, because the field is filled using javascript on the user’s computer in stead of the server.</p>
<p>You can choose where in your email to introduce this info by using a mail-tag, like any other field.</p>
<h4>How to use it?</h4>
<p>Once you have installed and activated your plugin, a new type of field will be available in your Contact Form 7 forms. In order to add it to your form, you can either click on the “Referrer” button above your form editor, or add the shortcode like: [cf7rfr_referrer {your-referrer}] ({your-referrer} has to be replaced by the name you want to give the field)</p>
<p>To recover the field’s info on your email, use this tag: [{your-referrer}]. It will print a URL.</p>
<h4>What referrer?</h4>
<p>This plugin looks at the HTTP referrer. Not at the traffic source. So, if your user comes from google, clicks some links in your site and ends up in your contact form page, the field will contain the last page in your site your client visited. It will not tell you whether the client landed from Google. This is meant to give you some context to the user’s message. Sometimes, they say “I love this product!” but you have no idea which one they are talking about. With the referrer field, at least you know what they saw last.</p>


Referrer Input for Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 Addon that creates a cache-resistant input that contains the URL of the page the user visited before the contact form page.

Didier Sampaolo

<p>This plugin uses a blacklist to filter your incoming traffic and block “spam referrer” attacks.</p>
<p>This blacklist has been compiled using the author’s website and a few others : during the plugin’s<br />
<em>beta-testing phase</em>, a few webmasters sent their reports to the author in order to find a suitable list of<br />
domains actually using false referrers to spam (at least) some websites statistics.</p>
<h4>Terms of use</h4>
<p>There aren’t any terms, conditions or restrictions to the use of this plugin and/or the Blacklist : feel free to reuse<br />
our work ! If you want to use the SpamReferrerBlock Blacklist for other purposes than this plugin, we simply ask that<br />
you consider linking to this page, to the plugin homepage, or to our blog. That’s all 🙂</p>
<h4>The Webservice</h4>
<p>This plugin uses a Webservice. Please be advised :</p>
<ul>
<li>You <strong>will</strong> retrieve information from our server. The “Blacklist” consists of a plain JSON file.</li>
<li>No need to register or provide personal information.</li>
<li>Free of charge, forever.</li>
<li>Caution – We technically <strong>can</strong> access some information while you request the file : your server’s IP address and<br />
server name, and so on. But we (honestly) <strong>DO NOT</strong> use <strong>ANY</strong> information that can be sent to our server during the downloading process, in any way.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Updates</h4>
<p>The blacklist will be updated as often as possible, we expect to release weekly updates.<br />
You can choose to automatically download the blacklist once a day.<br />
You can choose to filter all connexions or only the first of every session.<br />
Webmasters are encouraged to submit spammy URLs to help us improve the blacklist (see FAQ).</p>
<h4>Why this plugin ?</h4>
<p>I wrote a post about spam referrer attacks and how to avoid them on my blog : http://www.didcode.com/code/stop-spam-referrer.html (fr).<br />
Some webmasters asked me (on Twitter) to write this plugin. They were also targeted by “spam referrer attacks” and sent me the originating domains.<br />
I compiled a list and put it in a JSON file, which is called by the plugin.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.didcode.com/spam-referrer-block" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin home page</a> (fr)</p>


SpamReferrerBlock

This plugin prevents spam referrer attacks by filtering your incoming traffic.

Referrer Input for Contact Form 7 vs SpamReferrerBlock