Anti Spam Protection

  • Resolved rodeboy

    (@rodeboy)


    4 years, 3 months ago

    On your recommendation I installed WordPress Zero Spam as I was getting several spam messages from the Contact Forms on my sites. This works perfectly and I no longer receive such messages. With the addition of spam protection to your plugin with the latest version do I need to keep WordPress Zero Spam activated on my sites? I also have Akismet plugin too. What are your recommendations?

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  • Plugin Author Jared Atchison

    (@jaredatch)

    Hey @rodeboy – Great questions!

    The new anti-spam protection in the 1.6.2 release is a similar approach to WP Zero Spam.

    So if you are only using WPZS for spam protection on your forms, you should be able to remove that and enable the new anti-spam protection in your form settings and see no difference (our method is slightly more robust, so there could actually be improvements).

    We don’t currently integrate with Akismet, but that is best approach to combating comment spam (we use it ourselves) so I’d recommend keeping that enabled.

    Hope that helps. Let me know if you have any other questions ??

    Does enabling this new (AI?) spam protection option ad the risc of losing a email, that’s marked as spam and therefore not send to me?

    Plugin Support Ethan Choi

    (@ethanchoi)

    Hey @wp-opti,

    The new spam protection option prevents a form from being submitted if a bot submission is detected (this happens in the background, though not with AI).

    The anti-spam option should not prevent form submission from actual users. However, in edge cases where code conflict occurs, an error message will be displayed to the user when submission fails.

    In this case, you can test your forms to be sure that the form is working as expected.

    Hope this helps!

    And if you have more questions about using WPForms Lite, please feel welcome to create a new post.

    Thanks!

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