Do any anti-spam plugins work for CRED?

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Tagged: Content-submission forms, CRED API, Toolset Forms

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Last updated by Beda 7 years ago.

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November 11, 2017 at 2:23 am #588727

MichaelR9215

Hello,

A CRED form that I have had running on one of my client sites for about a year has started getting spam submissions.

Are there any options other than a CAPTCHA that can help with this? CAPTCHA is not extremely user friendly, and I usually try to implement something for spam that is not intrusive to user experience.

Are there any plugins, honeypots, etc. that can be implemented with CRED to stop spam submissions?

Thanks!

November 11, 2017 at 10:43 am #588769

Beda

I asked to support the new Google hidden captcha (no-Captcha).
This is of course work in progress and I cannot state any ETA; but that will solve your issue.

The problem is that spam is usually considered something that can happen only on comments, and hence all plugins which I know target comments.
I found one that could help:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/cleantalk-spam-protect/

Now, to avoid this, if you find no plugin doing this, I suggest to use Access and let only certain roles or even users submit or use the forms.
Another approach is to use CRED API validation hooks to eventually scan the content for let's say too many links (but that is a pretty "strict" solution)

Let me know if the plugins helps I shared.