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Thanks for the clarification. That’s the functionality I am looking for. Looks like there is a conflict on my site stopping it from working. I’ll look into it. Thanks for your help!

WP Forms has a Denylist.
Contact Form 7 has a Disallowed list. You can read about it here: https://contactform7.com/comment-blacklist/

Every other Contact Form Plugin has the capability to block individual spammers from comments AND contact form submissions. I am asking you to add the same functionality to the Business Directory plugin.

Requiring everyone to register will greatly reduce the number of people contacting listings on our directory. The goal is to make it easy for potential customers to contact listing owners while manually blocking specific spammers. The “Disallowed Comment Keys” (Settings>Discussion) does just that for comments. Comments are moderated, but unfortunately submissions through BD’s listing contact form are not. Since BD uses WordPress to send emails, it seems it would just be a little code to require contact form listing submissions to check the “Disallowed Comment Keys” section before sending an email. Or you could add an area for site admins to blacklist certain names/emails under the SPAM tab of the directory.

Is this something your developers can do?

Thanks for the reply. I already have reCAPTCHA installed on my forms and read the full article you linked to. Unfortunately, this is a real person submitting requests, so they are able to correctly fill out the reCAPTCHA. I added their name and email to the “Disallowed Comment Keys” (Settings>Discussion) section as stated in your article, but it doesn’t block them since it appears the BD listing contact form isn’t connected to it. Is there any way you can add an option to check the native WordPress comment blacklist before sending inquiries through the form? Or add an area to blacklist certain names and emails under the SPAM tab of the directory?