so much spam

Try ‘WP Armour’ plugin, it helps me cut down on spam a lot.

Hey @precisionautomotive – Thanks for reaching out!

We’re sorry to hear that you’ve encountered spam issues.

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.

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. 

Another option you might want to consider is setting up the Akismet anti-spam protection. This option will allow you to integrate  Akismet which is one of the top anti-spam protection plugins on www.ads-software.com to your forms. You should be able to seamlessly set this up by following the instructions here.

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!

Hey @precisionautomotive – We haven’t heard back from you in since my previous message, 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!

@precisionautomotive here is a guide to use WPForms + CleanTalk https://blog.cleantalk.org/how-to-protect-your-wpforms-contact-form-using-cleantalk-anti-spam-plugin/