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WP PlugIndex currently records Apio systems – Honeypot for Contact Form 7 version 1.0.4 as active, updated 2mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Overview
About this plugin
I like to use Contact Form 7 on most of my WordPress sites. It’s a powerful form manager that suits all my needs. I don’t like to use external calls to protect the forms from spam submissions though (like reCaptcha or hCaptcha) and don’t want to present a manual captcha to a user (math or other puzzle).
Since I couldn’t find a really basic honeypot script that works on most entries, I created one here. Hopefully it’s useful to someone else also.
Setup
Install the plugin using the regular plugin setup routine or upload the entire apiosys-honeypot-cf7 folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress, you MUST have Contact Form 7 AND Flamingo installed and enabled.
Add the following shortcodes to your Contact Form 7 forms:
[honeypot] – Adds the hidden honeypot field
[timestamp] – Adds time-based validation
Complete the rest of the options which you can find in Admin > Contact > Honeypot. A generally good working set of values is enabled by default there.
What tests are used?
A Honeypot Field
A Checkbox Trap
Time-Based Validation
Email domain Check
Content Analysis (across all form fields, not just the message)
Weak-Signal Scoring (combines many small clues to catch “human-looking” spam)
Does it really work?
It has been tested on several high-traffic WP sites. e. 1 in a thousand) of spam going through.
That usually corresponds to humans paid to fill forms or sophisticated bots. Please feel free to contribute to make it even better. You can contribute directly here.
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
antispam
forms
honeypot
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested with WP 7.1
Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.5 · PHP 7.2
Update activity13 Aug 20262mo ago
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