rodeboy

An updated version has just been released to resolve this issue.

V 2.6.7

The same is happening for me, and it would be really helpful if the developer could release an updated version of the plugin which includes a fix for this issue. Thanks.

Otherwise an excellent plugin and my ‘Go-To’ when a calendar is needed.

This is the notice when clicking on the plugins settings ‘Undefined index: log_blocked_ips’

Location ‘wp-content/plugins/zero-spam/inc/admin.php:542’

Hope that helps, Chris

• This reply was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by rodeboy.

Thank you very much for the explanation Ben. I was aware of it being a full re-write, but not necessarily the implications of that. Having now activated the latest version of the plugin, I then had to go into settings and click ‘Save’ without making any changes to clear a php error. All appears fine now on the standard settings, thanks.

The principle reason I use this plugin is to work with WPForms to eliminate spam. Do I need to do anything else Ben?

Cheers, Chris

That’s great help @erocksc and thank you for sharing. This certainly looks to be a plugin with good reviews, recent updates and decent support. Will check it out.

Have you come across any issues with Google Search Console on the sites you have used this?

@tlgtimeshare I agree with your frustrations! The trouble is GSC considers putting your own testimonials on there as self serving – suggesting that people make them up and so are of no value to the visitor. Whilst I can see what they are saying, personally I only ever use exact quotes from people and if GSC are saying that there is more value with the reviews left coming from TripAdvisor and the like then they really do need to realise that so many of them are false and put on there by trolls etc.

I am now moving to not using a plugin to display testimonials preferring to put them on my sites as straight text, as I feel GSC will catch up with other testimonial plugins in time and we will just have the same problem again.

Anyone got any further suggestions?!

See https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/item-does-not-support-reviews-2/page/2/#post-13021808 where many have had the same problem. Nothing seems to be happening to resolve this issue.

As OP on this thread I had this plugin on 4 of my sites, after all it displays the testimonials well. However I have tagged the developer and DM’d him without response, and clearly the plugin is no longer fully supported. A recent security fix did not resolve this issue and it has not been tested against the latest version of WordPress. So I have pulled it from 3 of those sites and GSC has validated my fix. Just need to do some work on the fourth site and then I’m done.

I have updated to the new version 3.0.3 and then asked GSC to validate the fix. Unfortunately it said “Cannot continue validation process. Affected pages were found. Fix the issue and run validation again” So it appears the update has not resolved this issue.

Please @halgatewood can you provide us with a response as, I believe, we all love the plugin and want to continue to use it, but it is testing our patience.

As it stands I think the suggestion made by @matthew423 is the only option as Google does not want to display any review of the business of the website if it has been put there by the webmaster, as this is considered self serving. As I understand it it is only the review itself which will not appear in any SERPS, it does not affect the page or the site itself. Please correct me if I am wrong.

See this page https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/09/making-review-rich-results-more-helpful.html

Either way I still would appreciate the input of @halgatewood. the plugin developer, in this matter please.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by rodeboy.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by rodeboy.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by rodeboy.

Thanks for the comments, any thoughts @halgatewood

I have installed WordPress Zero Spam on my sites and that seems to have done the job. However I would still prefer not to have to use it and that spam protection in WPForms was better!

Perfect explanation. Just what I was looking for!

Thanks Ethan. I fully accept that you cannot support third party plugins. I just need one that will prevent spam from the form as I use Akismet for spam protection on comments and that works fine.

Do you have any experience to say that one or the other of the plugins you mention work best with WP Forms Lite? As I say, it is just for the forms I need it. Should I keep the reCaptcha in place as well as the additional spam protection plugin?

Thanks, and I look forward to the WP Forms Lite update which provides greater spam protection as everything else about the plugin is great.

Chris

I would welcome an improvement to anti-spam features as soon as possible. For me, there has been a noticeable increase in the past few months of the amount of spam emails I have received via the contact page which uses WP Forms Lite. I have my reCaptcha setting on the highest.