Akismet Anti-spam vs NM Contact Forms

The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce. Akismet checks your comments and contact form submissions against our global database of spam to prevent your site from publishing malicious content. You can review the comment spam it catches on your blog’s “Comments” admin screen. Major features in Akismet include: Automatically checks all comments and filters out the ones that look like spam. Each comment has a status history, so you can easily see which comments were caught or cleared by Akismet and which were spammed or unspammed by a moderator. URLs are shown in the comment body to reveal hidden or misleading links. Moderators can see the number of approved comments for each user. A discard feature that outright blocks the worst spam, saving you disk space and speeding up your site. PS: You’ll be prompted to get an Akismet.com API key to use it, once activated. Keys are free for personal blogs; paid subscriptions are available for businesses and commercial sites.

First off all this contact form plugin is completely free and has no premium plugin bullshit. NM Contact Forms Plugin allow you simple contact form integration into your WordPress Website. Plugin has 2 built-in anti-spam solutions : HoneyPot and NoCaptcha reCaptcha. The plugin supports various form field types and has neat admin user interface. Link to Detailed documentation Why to choose NM contact forms you may ask. Friendly UI: Drag and drop interface that allows to define contact form fields order. Plugin allows to turn on/off default styling (off by default). Option to remove donation bar Responsive user interface Control over each field: Following field types available: TEXT TEXTAREA FREE TEXT WITH LABEL EMAIL SELECT CHECKBOXES RADIO BUTTONS SINGLE FILE UPLOAD GET VARIABLE SUBMIT HONEY POT HORIZONTAL RULES RECAPTCHA Define zones in the form Define extra classes Choose place holders Choose if field is required Make field read-only and pre-populate it with GET variable. Built in anti-spam solutions: reCaptcha (requires Google reCaptcha site key and secret) Honey Pot GET variable: GET variable allows to pass information from URL to the form. For example you create a link/button to contact us page that contains GET variable (http:/example.com/?product=Shampoo), in this case your GET variable name is 'product', so in NM contact form field settings you need to define same GET variable. When user visits Contact Us page, the field will be pre-filled with GET variable value. You can save some time for the users, so they doesn't have to fill information that is already known, and just needs to be sent with form all together. You can use GET variable with following contact form fields: Hidden field Regular input Checkbox Select Textarea If you find any bugs, please report! I will add you to contributors list. TO DO: Custom error messages Auto response Custom email templates