Anti-Spam WordPress Contact Plugins
by Sapphire (March 12, 2007)
I get a lot of spam from one of my WordPress contact forms. All of my sites use the old Ryan Duff program (am I missing something? I can’t find the link to it) that served so well for so many years… until the spammers got hold of it.
I found a lovely modification of it that I’ve installed on two sites so far: Kristen’s Contact Form with a challenge question and a subject line. Now, to give credit where it’s due, it was originally Doug Karr who modified Ryan’s plugin to add the challenge question, and if you don’t want to give your visitors the option of a subject line his plugin should work very well for you. The reason I chose Kristen’s, though, is both the subject line option and the fact that she has the styling working better out of the box. Doug offered a table format version to get it looking right, and perhaps if I’d tried it my styling would have been just fine. But by that point, the subject line option was appealing to me, so there you go.
Anyway, there are a couple of options that work well, don’t bloat a bunch of javascript into your document head (just some CSS, which you can easily remove from the plugin and insert into your stylesheet).
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