False positives – spam

Hi @rvds,

I hope you are doing well today!

Currently, there’s no built-in feature in Forminator to see the form entries that are marked as spam.

In fact, the better approach would be to use the security features and various integrations of Forminator to prevent submissions on the go before they are being posted by the tools mentioned below;
https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/forminator/#security
https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/forminator/#captcha
https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/forminator/#captcha-field
https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/forminator/#cleantalk-anti-spam
https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/forminator/#friendly-captcha
https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/forminator/#simple-cloudflare-turnstile

Kind regards,
Zafer

Hi Zafer,

Of course the best approach would be to use security features and various integrations of Forminator to prevent submissions on the go before they are being posted. We use those.

The problem is, these features seemed to work too good with WPForms, therefor giving us false positives. Which annoys my client, because she’s missing out on genuine submissions.
We then switched to Forminator, because I thought that the problem might be with WPForms. WPForms had the option to view spam-submissions, as an extra checkup to see if she was missing out on genuine submissions.

I was wondering that if Forminator has a similar logging feature. Or a snippet for that…

Regards,
Ralf

Hi @rvds,

I’m afraid, there isn’t any such feature at the moment. Maybe you could try the following filter and see whether that helps:

<?php

add_filter( 'forminator_query_entries_where', function( $where, $args ) {
	$where = str_replace( " AND entries.is_spam = '0'", '', $where );

	return $where;
}, 10, 2 );

The above would list all the submissions under Forminator > Submissions page including any spam submissions.

Please check and see whether the above helps as a workaround. The above code can be added as a mu-plugins.

Please check this link on how to implement the above code as a mu-plugins:
https://wpmudev.com/docs/using-wordpress/installing-wordpress-plugins/#installing-mu-plugins

Kind Regards,

Nithin

Hello @rvds ,

It looks like my colleague’s code helped solve your issue as we haven’t heard back from you for some time now.
I will resolve this topic, but if you have more questions feel free to re-open it.

kind regards,
Kasia