Akismet Anti-spam vs Velnix Form Monitor

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.

Your contact form looks fine. It stopped sending emails 3 days ago. A plugin update changed something. A host migration quietly broke SMTP. A configuration changed overnight. Your form still displays perfectly but every submission since then went nowhere. Your client is waiting for a call that never came. This is the most expensive silent failure in WordPress. And it happens constantly. Velnix Form Monitor fixes this. It runs automatic health checks on your Contact Form 7 and Elementor forms and sends you an email alert the moment email delivery breaks, before your client loses a single lead. And here is the part no other plugin does: even if your server’s wp_mail is broken, alerts still reach you via the Velnix backup server. The tool that monitors your email delivery does not rely on your email delivery. Why WordPress freelancers and agencies use Velnix Silent failures are invisible. Broken forms show no errors. No red screen. No PHP warning. Just missed leads. You manage multiple sites. Manually checking every client form every day is not a workflow. It is a liability. Clients blame you. When a form breaks, you are responsible whether or not it was your fault. Standard monitoring tools miss this. Uptime monitors check if your site loads. Not if your forms actually deliver. Free features Monitors all your Contact Form 7 and Elementor forms with no limit 24-hour health checks via WP Cron Email alerts with Velnix server fallback (alerts reach you even when wp_mail fails) Red dot indicator in WordPress admin bar Unlimited alert history in your dashboard SMTP detection and warnings Zero configuration — install, activate, done Pro features (coming soon) 5-minute health checks instead of 24-hour WhatsApp alerts and Slack alerts Form diagnosis — see exactly why it broke WPForms and Gravity Forms support Priority support How it works Install and activate Velnix Form Monitor It immediately registers your forms and begins monitoring Every 24 hours it runs a health check on each form If a form stops delivering you get an alert instantly The alert arrives via the Velnix backup server, so it reaches you even if wp_mail is the problem No setup required. No forms to fill. No API keys to configure. Who it is for WordPress freelancers managing client sites. You carry the responsibility when a client’s leads go missing. Velnix gives you proof you were watching. WordPress agencies handling multiple projects. One broken form across 20 client sites is a support ticket, a refund request, and a lost client. Velnix catches it before they do. Anyone who cannot afford to miss a lead. If your contact form is connected to revenue, you need to know the instant it breaks. Free vs Pro Feature Free Pro Contact Form 7 monitoring Unlimited Unlimited Elementor Forms monitoring Unlimited Unlimited WPForms and Gravity Forms No Yes Health check interval 24 hours 5 minutes Email alerts Yes Yes WhatsApp and Slack alerts No Yes Velnix server fallback Yes Yes Alert history Unlimited Unlimited Form diagnosis (why it broke) No Yes Priority support No Yes External services Velnix Form Monitor connects to the Velnix API (api.velnix.dev) to register your site and deliver backup alert emails when wp_mail fails. Data sent: site URL, admin email, form IDs. No form submission data is ever collected or stored. Terms of Use: https://velnix.dev/terms Privacy Policy: https://velnix.dev/privacy External Services This plugin connects to the Velnix API (api.velnix.dev) to: – Register your site on activation – Deliver backup email alerts when wp_mail fails Data sent: site URL, admin email, form IDs. No form submission data is collected. Terms of Use: https://velnix.dev/terms Privacy Policy: https://velnix.dev/privacy