{"id":2563,"date":"2007-09-16T22:38:38","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T17:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/09\/secure-your-wordpress-contact-form-block-spam-emails\/"},"modified":"2020-05-22T17:11:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T11:41:26","slug":"secure-your-wordpress-contact-form-block-spam-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/09\/secure-your-wordpress-contact-form-block-spam-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Secure Your WordPress Contact Form: Block Spam Emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though many wordpress bloggers talked about\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">email spam from wordpress contact forms<\/span>, it was never a problem here\u2026 until yesterday. It seems someone found a security loophole in the php script that powered the contact form and my email inbox was filled with spam emails. It was time to upgrade to a more secure WordPress contact form.<\/p>\n<p>If you can believe it, my current design is the outcome of hundreds (maybe thousands!) of edits to the original beautiful Blix wordpress theme and the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #428bca;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kingcosmonaut.de\/blix\/preview\/?page_id=4\" rel=\"noopener\">Blix contact form<\/a>\u00a0(php script) is an inbuilt part of the blog. Now in a search to find a new contact form, a large number of\u00a0<a style=\"color: #428bca;\" href=\"https:\/\/lorelle.wordpress.com\/2007\/02\/27\/contact-form-wordpress-plugins\/\" rel=\"noopener\">contact form wordpress plugins<\/a>\u00a0were available.<\/p>\n<p>Confused, I asked a friend who was using the\u00a0WordPress Contact Form with Spam Protection\u00a0by Douglas Karr. I installed the wordpress contact form in minutes, and the\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">email spam stopped instantly<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Installation was very simple. Copy the plugin wp-contact-form folder to the plugin directory. Enable the plugin. Go to Options and customize it and change the challenge question and answer if you&#8217;d like (a simple math problem that stops spam easily. 2+2=4 kid stuff you say!).<\/p>\n<p>I simply inserted a code into my\u00a0<a style=\"color: #428bca;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/contact\/\">contact page<\/a>\u00a0(by going to page editor) and all was working fine. Goodbye to email spam forever\u2026. hopefully.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some\u00a0<a style=\"color: #428bca;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/06\/feedback-check-can-your-readers-contact-you\/\">best practices for contact forms<\/a>. Which wordpress contact form do you use for spam protection?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though many wordpress bloggers talked about\u00a0email spam from wordpress contact forms, it was never a problem here\u2026 until yesterday. It&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,36],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-2563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-security","category-about","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}