Akismet integration?

  • Resolved maxity

    (@maxity)


    2 years, 5 months ago

    We are having significant issues with the current spam protection provided by WPForms. There is an increasing amount of manually submitted spam, especially from eastern europe. Neither honeypot, Recpatcha or other spam protection services are helping much. The only working protection so far is a content filter like Akismet. Works like a charm for our comments.

    Unfortunaltely, there is no such filter for WPForms, as far as I understand. Are there any plans to integrate Akismet or any other working content filter?

    Thanks a lot,
    Roman

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  • Hi @maxity,

    Sorry to hear about the spam issue you are facing here!

    We don’t have any short-term plans to support Akismet, but I agree it would be a great feature for WPForms.

    If you’re still having spam with reCAPTCHA enabled, you can consider increasing the security level of the reCAPTCHA integration on your site.

    For v2 reCAPTCHA, you can do this by going to your reCAPTCHA account. Then in the settings of your current integration, you can adjust the Security Preference slider.

    For v3 reCAPTCHA, you can adjust the settings in your WordPress admin area by going to WPForms > Settings > reCAPTCHA. In this Score Threshold field, you can increase the score to a higher number for stricter security.

    And if you’d prefer not to use reCAPTCHA, we have another anti-spam protection feature, hCaptcha. This is a good option if you’d prefer not to sign up for Google’s reCAPTCHA service. Within your forms, hCaptcha will display a checkbox asking users to prove they’re human (much like Google’s v2 Checkbox reCAPTCHA). We have a detailed guide for setting up hCaptcha.

    Alternatively, you can consider the third-party plugins such as WordPress Zero Spam or Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalk which work out of the box to protect your forms against spam.

    Hope this helps!

    Hi @maxity —

    We haven’t heard back from you in about a week, so I’m going to go ahead and close this thread for now. But if you’d like us to assist further, please feel welcome to continue the conversation.

    Thanks!

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