Naming the field witrhout any hint to ‘honeypot’

  • Resolved keesjan

    (@keesjan)


    8 years, 2 months ago

    Hi, we use your very helpfull addon plugin for form 7.
    One question. the ‘honeypot field’ is named [honeypot honeypot-xyz]

    If I was a spam, botmaker, I would search for fields starting with honeypot and leaving that one empty.

    Is there away to completely change the field name in the form to a new ‘secret’ field name?

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  • Ryan

    (@daobydesign)

    Hi, yes. As mentioned when generating the Honeypot code in the CF7 form as well as on the installation tab (here on www.ads-software.com), it is recommended to change the Name field to something less “honeypot-ish” (it reads: For better security, change “honeypot” to something less bot-recognizable.)

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by Ryan.
    Thread Starter keesjan

    (@keesjan)

    So the honeypot field would still work when I change
    [honeypot honeypot-xyz] to [field-email email-1] ?

    Ryan

    (@daobydesign)

    No. The shortcode still needs to start with “honeypot”, as that tells the shortcode function what shortcode it is. But you can use [honeypot email-1] and “honeypot” will not appear anywhere in the generated form field (I recommend viewing your page’s HTML source — search for the field name — and you’ll see exactly what a bot sees)

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