Akismet Anti-spam vs Simply Contact

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.

A simple contact form powered by Google reCaptcha. The user needs to have a valid Google reCaptcha keys generated for their domain. The form can easily be pulled into any page using the short code [SC] Requirements Google reCaptcha keys Public and private keys generated for their site. A valid email id preferably carrying the same domain name as their website. if your site name is www.cthreelabs.com then the mail id should be [email protected]. The form is tested with out any additional plugin for SMTP configuration and works well and good. The form may require WP Mail SMTP pluign if the form fails to send mail (optional). Using WP Mail SMTP plugin along with Simply Contact will enable the user to send mail to Gmail account provided the user configures the WP MAIL SMTP as described. Requires wordpress 3.0.1 and above. The default theme of the contact form is clean , please refer the screen shot. The form size is set at minimum width of 450px , it is adviced to place the form in a container greater than 450px . The form is not responsive !. =Customize Contact form appearance = You can customize the contact form using the following CSS classes Form container div -> .sc-form-container , All input fields -> .sc-input , All the labels -> .sc-text , Fields container -> .simplyContact p , Important fields # -> .simply-imp , Submit Button -> .simply-submit , reCaptcha text area -> .recaptcha_input_area > input (use !important declaration to override google styles) , Succes Message -> .simply-success , Failure Message -> .simply-failure , Add this to your Custom style sheer to remove Google reCaptcha image and privacy policy in captcha input area –> #recaptcha_logo, #recaptcha_privacy{ display:none !important; }