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Thanks. The techniques that are used in that plugin need to be updated to my current solutions.

I have an even better standalone solution at https://www.formspammertrap.com . You can adapt that to a WordPress site but it requires creating a template (from a copy of your theme’s page template) and adding just four PHP lines. Full instructions are in the zip files I send out.

See the site for info, and how to get the free solution via the contact form on that site (which uses the new techniques).

I probably should update the plugin, but I have lost faith in Contact Form 7 due to their implementation of reCAPTCHA version 3 (and the load that it puts on all pages of a site). My solution uses reCAPTCHA version 2, and makes it optional. I am converting all of my sites to use my FormSpammerTrap instead of CF7. It is very effective in stopping contact form spam. (And it is fully featured and free.)

Thanks for taking the time to comment on the plugin. You can get the other solution via the FormSpammerTrap web site.

So you can see how the FormSpammerTrap contact form works on a WP site, I changed the Contact Form on https://www.cellarweb.com (my ‘company’ site, runs on WP) to use FormSpammerTrap (FST) via a shortcode on a page.

All I had to do is copy the theme’s page template into a new file, change the template name (so I could find it), and add four commands at the top of the template file. Uploaded the new template file.

Then set up some parameters in the FST functions file (full instructions on how to do that included), mainly to add reCAPTCHA v2 (I already had the keys) and set up the email address. Then uploaded that file.

Changed my existing Contact page to use the new FST shortcode, published it, and that was it. The whole process took about five minutes.

You are welcome to try it out the new contact page on the CellarWeb site. There will be no Contact form spam there.