Hey @bloeise!
Thank you so much for sharing your feedback with us, and we’re really sorry to hear that your experience of WPForms was tainted by the presence of spam.
WPForms has a ton of free anti-spam features available with all versions of the plugin:
- Google’s free reCAPTCHA service
- hCaptcha
- CloudFlare Turnstile
- Akismet Anti-Spam Protection
- Country filter
- Keyword filter
- Block or allow specific email addresses
All of these are included with WPForms to help you proactively and reactively prevent spam from being submitted through your forms. In essence, aside from the honeypot, the captchas are available so that you can pick the most effective one to prevent spam, and you can add the Akismet integration on top of that, but then if spam somehow comes through, you can allow or deny certain countries from making submissions (this is golden if you only accept entries from a specific area anyways), you can block certain keywords that might be synonymous with the type of spam you’ve been receiving, and if a certain email or domain has been spamming you, you can block a whole email address ([email protected]) a domain (@email.xyz) or an entire Top Level Domain (.xyz).
If you’d like to read a bit more about each of these options we have a great guide?here.
We’re cognizant of how important it is to keep spam at bay, and so we try to offer as many options as we can to help you to ensure that you have as low a chance of receiving spam as possible. If you have any specific feedback that could help us to improve this, or any insights regarding the type of spam that you received, that would be very helpful to us as we truly appreciate your feedback here and hope to make some improvements from this.
Thanks, and have a great one!
