Disallowed list should have priority over spam filtering

  • Resolved ucsendre

    (@ucsendre)


    1 year, 11 months ago

    I have akismet spam filtering on webpages I manage and it works fine.

    My problem is that I get huge number of spam form submissions which eat up my database (because I also have Flamingo installed).

    I have just recently found that there is a way to completely block known spam submissions by using WP built-in disallow list feature as suggested here: contactform7.com/comment-blacklist.

    Sadly it is not functioning as I expected, because the spam filtering has higher priority in handling submissions and the disallowed list is not used if one message gets marked as spam.

    I think the disallowed list should be the first thing to check the submission before spam filtering – that way I could completely get rid of these submissions without having to manually delete them again and again.

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  • Plugin Author Takayuki Miyoshi

    (@takayukister)

    To be more exact, the priority given to the both spam filters is the same (10), but the Akismet module is loaded earlier than the disallowed list.

    I don’t think it is good to give a higher priority to the disallowed list because that will deprive Akismet of the opportunity to learn.

    That said, you can easily change the order if you wish. They are added to the wpcf7_spam filter hook, so simply remove/add the filter functions with your preferred priority.

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