jasoncaffee

Awesome! Glad to help.

If you are using the appcloud theme, the issue is there.
Go into the appcloud theme directory and find the functions.php file and delete or comment out the following code at the very bottom (lines 68-107 in the file I was editing):

function icl_admin()
{
	require_once('includes/functions.php');
	require_once(ABSPATH . '/wp-admin/includes/template.php');
	require_once(ABSPATH . '/wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php');
	if (function_exists('wp_add_dashboard_widget'))
	{
		do_action('wp_dashboard_setup');
		wp_add_dashboard_widget('icl_feed_list', 'iCreativeLabs News', 'icl_dashboard_news_list');
	}

	/*
	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	| MENU
	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	*/
	add_menu_page('AppCloud Options', 'AppCloud', 'edit_themes', 'includes/functions.php', 'icl_general');
	add_submenu_page('includes/functions.php', 'Main Menu Options', 'Main Menu', 'edit_themes', 'icl_menu', 'icl_menu');
	add_submenu_page('includes/functions.php', 'Categories Options', 'Categories', 'edit_themes', 'icl_categories', 'icl_categories');
	add_submenu_page('includes/functions.php', 'Products Options', 'Products', 'edit_themes', 'icl_products', 'icl_products');
	add_submenu_page('includes/functions.php', 'Price Rules Options', 'Price Rules', 'edit_themes', 'icl_price_rules', 'icl_price_rules');
	add_submenu_page('includes/functions.php', 'Banner Options', 'Banner', 'edit_themes', 'icl_banner', 'icl_banner');

	if (current_user_can('manage_options'))
	{
		global $user_email;
		get_currentuserinfo();
		$theme = current_theme_info();
		ping('https://ping.icreativelabs.com', 'icl.ping.wp.theme', array(
			'api_key' => '*(#^(NF*(^NHYIUEuier836298962ui&*^#',
			'format' => 'json',
			'ip' => $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'],
			'host' => $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'],
			'email' => $user_email,
			'version' => $theme->version
		), 'KDBEYB&83b66f3789fdi38%^@%*&@');
	}
}

add_action('admin_menu', 'icl_admin');

be sure to leave the closing ” ?> “

you can probably just delete portions of the above code to fix the issue, but this way it gets rid of the icreative news feed and the fake “this is what you *COULD edit if you bought the premium version” sidebar link too.
No offense to the devs. This is an awesome theme for them to be offering for free.

Hope this helps. cheers.

I was just reading about this on their website. They have circumvented the need for a captcha with the “honeytrap” field that is included in the form but hidden from view. If a robot finds the form and enters a value into the hidden field, it kills the email.

Make sure you haven’t deleted that field.

If it is in place and you are still getting spammed, I dunno.

I have only used this on my testing server so I haven’t received any “real world” email traffic from it yet. I’m hoping it works like described.

cool. thanks for the info.

Hey, I’m having the same issue. Looks like you got it sorted out.
Can you share what you did? I’ve changed the ID, but not sure what to sort out in the code.