About this plugin
The email validator is designed by Antideo to help combat spam coming in through contact forms. Antideo validates email addresses entered through your contact forms in real time to prevent inquiries from fake email addresses. The email validator plugin comes packed with several features that help you –
- Check the syntax of the email entered, to quickly flag the error to the visitor
- Check for disposable or temporary emails
- Prevent inquiries from free ESP’s like Gmail, Yahoo, etc (Can be switched on and off)
- Prevent inquiries from role-based emails like info@, support@, admin@ etc (Can be switched on and off)
- Check MX records to identify invalid emails
- Create and maintain your own local whitelist of domains and emails
- Create and maintain your own local blacklist of domains and emails
Armed with the capabilities of our plugin you would be able to eliminate a major portion of contact form spam, as spammers seldom use a valid business email address. Our plugin out of the box is compatible with major forms like
- Contact Form 7
- Gravity Forms
- Mailster Form
- WooCommerce
- MailChimp
- Ninja Forms
- Formidable forms
- JetPack comments and a contact form
- MailPoet
- WP-Members
- Paid Membership Pro
- Form Maker by 10Web
- Visual Form Builder
And pretty much any other form that uses the default WordPress is_email() function. The plugin is very easy to install and activate, no tech knowledge whatsoever is needed to get going with the plugin.
Advantages of our plugin
- No limits on the number of validations – go crazy, it’s unlimited!!
- Real time validations done in a fraction of a second
- Extensive database of 84K+ disposable email domains and constantly being updated with newer ones
- Clean and super friendly UI that is easy to use
- A powerful free version and an affordable premium version
We are literally eating our own dog food, implementing the Antideo Email Validation plugin on several websites that we own, which has resulted in spam inquiries going down by over 87%.
You can access more information on the plugin as well as the several aspects of email validation here.
Disclaimer: This plugin is an email validator and not an email verifier