I don't like Spam!

Description

Use the Comment Blocklist feature to protect your contact form.

Compatibility

This plugin is compatible with Ninja Forms and WPForms.

Features

• Not reinventing the wheel since WordPress already has a Comment Blocklist feature.
• Privacy by Design by using a local blocklist.
• No external API.

Setup

• Login to the dashboard and open Settings > Discussion.
• Scroll down to Disallowed Comment Keys.
• Enter some bad words, phrases or weblinks that keep bugging you. Choose your blocklist wisely!
• Contact forms that contain any of these words cannot be submitted anymore and will show an error message.
• Optional: Modify the error message output in the Theme Customizer.

Fun fact

Spam emails are usually very annoying and affect work – and there is nothing funny about it. But did you know that the term Spam, referring to junk mail, was named after a famous Monty Python sketch?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(Monty_Python)

Contribution?

• The Plugin development can be followed via GitHub <3
• Let us know if we should add another Contact form plugin
• We are happy to receive feature suggestions and pull requests: https://github.com/them-es/i-dont-like-spam
  

  More information

  https://them.es/plugins/i-dont-like-spam

Screenshots

Installation

1. Upload the Plugin to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate it through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Add a list of bad words, phrases or weblinks that should prevent form submissions to the Comment Blocklist.

Reviews

Works flawlessly with WPForms

srossignol December 13, 2022 1 reply

I was a bit annoyed by continuous spam on a website with important traffic. The plugin is plug and play and use existing features of WP, which is good to avoid a bloated WP install. I don’t know why this plugin isn’t more used, as it works perfectly and easily.

no more NINJA FORMS canada pharmacy spam emails!!!!!

szlasa July 13, 2020

My website has been smashed (thousands of submissions) for the last few days with “Canada Pharmacy” SPAM on a ninja form contact us form. Its been an ongoing problem for months and somehow they have gotten around reCaptcha and honey pots and any other thing I can throw in their way. I have spent countless hours deleting emails and stored records. I gave up and just turned off the form. This plugin has saved me! Ninja forms has some security problems, mainly allowing reCaptcha to be bypassed and all form validation is done client side. This plugin is a quick and simple solution to unwanted submissions using the existing WP spam filters.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

1.2.8

• Tested up to WordPress 6.7
• Remove Caldera Forms references and code

1.2.7

• Tested up to WordPress 6.6
• The Caldera Forms plugin has been closed by the developers – add a deprecated notice to the code

1.2.6

• Code quality
• Documentation

1.2.5

• Prevent PHP error when checking field values
• Code quality

1.2.4

• Code quality

1.2.3

• The option key changed after WordPress 5.5b3. Use option ‘disallowed_keys’ if WordPress version >=5.5 and implement recommended code snippet for backward compatibility.

1.2.2

• Use option ‘blocklist_keys’ if WordPress version >=5.5

1.2.1

• Improve pluginmissing_admin_notice()

1.2

• Compatibility with Caldera Forms

1.1.1

• “Racially neutral” terminology: Rename blacklist to blocklist where possible

1.1

• Compatibility with WPForms
• Minor changes to translation strings

1.0

• Initial Release
• Created a GitHub repository with all development sources