Anti-Spam Protection – No API Key, GDPR Friendly vs Super CAPTCHA Security Suite – Hardened 3D CAPTCHA

Is Contact Form 7 spam destroying your mornings? No API key. No data leaving your server. No charges for commercial use. Just effective spam protection that works the moment you activate it. What Gets Protected (FREE) ✅ Contact Form 7 – Block bot spam automatically ✅ WPForms Lite & Pro – Stop automated submissions ✅ Jetpack Contact Forms – Filter bot spam instantly ✅ Fluent Forms – Eliminate bot attacks ✅ SureForms – Block bot spam submissions ✅ WordPress Comments – Clean comment spam from badbots ✅ Business sites included – No commercial fees ever Works immediately after activation. No configuration. No learning curve. No monthly costs. How It Works 3 Steps to Spam-Free Contact Forms: Install – Search “Contact Form 7 spam” in your WordPress dashboard Activate – One click to turn on protection Relax – Your Contact Form 7 and WPForms and others are now protected from bots The moment you activate, spam bots are automatically blocked on all your forms and comments. No settings to configure. No technical knowledge required. No ongoing maintenance. Most users report 95-100% spam reduction within the first 24 hours. Tomorrow morning, check your inbox. Instead of dozens of spam submissions, you’ll see only real customer inquiries. That’s the peace of mind this plugin delivers. Why Contact Form 7 Needs This Contact Form 7 is WordPress’s most popular form plugin with over 5 million active installations. It’s lightweight, flexible, and completely free. But it doesn’t include spam protection. Without protection, Contact Form 7 sites get hammered. Bot networks discover unprotected forms and flood them with submissions. Your inbox fills with junk. You waste time sorting real inquiries from spam. Worse, you risk missing legitimate customers buried in the noise. This plugin fixes that problem. For free. Forever. Free vs Pro: What You Get FREE Version (Most Sites Need Only This): ✅ Contact Form 7 bot spam blocked ✅ WPForms automated spam stopped ✅ Jetpack forms protected ✅ Fluent Forms secured ✅ SureForms protected ✅ WordPress comment spam eliminated ✅ Works on business/commercial sites ✅ Spam statistics dashboard Automated bots cause 95%+ of spam. The free version handles this completely. PRO Version (For Advanced Needs): ⚡ Private Machine Learning human spam detection (runs on your own server, learns from your spam) ⚡ Gravity Forms integration ⚡ WooCommerce registration protection ⚡ Email quarantine for review ⚡ Custom IP blocklists ⚡ Allow/deny pattern rules ⚡ Priority support Most Contact Form 7 users never need Pro. But if you’re getting manually-typed spam or need enterprise features, Pro has you covered. Why This Works Better Than CAPTCHA CAPTCHA makes your visitors prove they’re human by solving puzzles. It’s annoying, hurts conversions, and still lets some spam through. This plugin takes a smarter approach: Invisible honeypot fields – Bots can’t resist filling hidden fields that humans never see Timing analysis – Bots submit forms instantly; real people don’t Behavioral fingerprinting – Bot patterns are detectable and consistent No user friction – Your visitors never know the protection exists Lightning fast – All processing happens locally on your server Your Contact Form 7 stays fast. Your conversion rates stay high. Spam disappears. It just works. Quietly. Effectively. Completely free. Common Questions Answered “Will this work with my existing Contact Form 7 setup?” Yes. It integrates automatically with all CF7 configurations, custom fields, and extensions. Nothing breaks. Spam just stops. “I’m not technical. Can I install this?” If you can install a WordPress plugin, you can use this. There’s literally nothing to configure. Install, activate, done. “What about sites that aren’t in English?” Works perfectly on all languages. The spam detection doesn’t depend on language – it detects bot behavior patterns. “My site sells products. Do I have to pay?” No. Unlike some popular anti-spam solutions that charge business sites, this is free for commercial use. No exceptions. No hidden fees. Ready to Stop Contact Form 7 Spam? Installation takes 30 seconds: In your WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins → Add New Search for “Contact Form 7 spam” Click Install, then Activate Done – your forms are now protected Check your email tomorrow. Enjoy the silence. For detailed statistics and settings, visit Settings → Anti Spam after activation. Go Pro Most Contact Form 7 users never need Pro – the free version eliminates their spam problem completely. What makes Pro unique – private Machine Learning: Unlike cloud filters that ship your visitors’ messages off to an external service, the Pro classifier runs entirely on your own server. It learns from the spam you classify, gets smarter the more you use it, and never sends data to a third party outside your control – no external cloud service, no data sharing, no privacy trade-off. Pro delivers: ✅ Private Machine Learning Human Spam Detection – Stops manually-typed spam that gets past basic filters, using Machine Learning that runs entirely on your own server and learns from your spam classifications – your visitors’ data never leaves your site or goes to a third party outside your control ✅ Gravity Forms Integration – Complete protection for premium form users ✅ WooCommerce Registration Blocking – Stop fake account spam ✅ Email Quarantine – Review and rescue any legitimate messages caught by mistake ✅ Quarantine / Audit Log – Full spam traceability: see every submission the plugin checks, allowed or blocked, and exactly why it was decided (bot trap, Machine Learning human-spam score, single-word, deny rule, real-time IP blocklist or allow list) – with the analysed content, masked IP and country, plus one-click allow/deny actions to fix any mistake ✅ Custom Allow/Deny Rules – Block specific IPs, patterns, or keywords ✅ IP Blocklist Checking – Automatic blocking of known spam networks ✅ Priority Support – Get help directly from the developers Perfect for: – High-traffic sites getting manually-entered spam – Agencies managing multiple client installations – Enterprise sites requiring advanced controls – Gravity Forms and WooCommerce users Start Your Free 30-Day Pro Trial Try Pro features risk-free for 30 days. A card is required to start, but you won’t be charged if you cancel before the trial ends. No pressure, no hassle.

Read the SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH by the University of Wollongong, Australia. Spoiler: the results are around page 20. You’ve been there, you have installed 20 or more CAPTCHA plugins for WordPress to see them ultimately fail in even slowing down spam bots. We know, we have been there too. I used to run a a very high-profile BuddyPress community website that lost its moderators and administrators because of the web-spam issue. We tried everything, Aksmet, ReCaptcha, and nothing seemed to work. This is because spam bots are reading images with OCR technology. With only 3 minutes of setup on your site, their accuracy at solving your CAPTCHAs are a stunning 92%. This made me think outside the box and answer my own question: What can I do to make it virtually impossible for a computer to know what a human would know. This lead to the first-ever text-based 3-D CAPTCHA and it was born right here on WordPress.org. The technology is so incredibly simple it is mind-blowing — render a transparent image of text and lay lines on top of it. Sounds too easy right? It is for a human. You can see this image and can immediately see what’s missing. A computer however would have to employ reasoning engines to determine what is missing. Our CAPTCHA has been broken by OCR bots programmed specifically for the easiest setting, but only at a 27% success rate. Most other plugins you will find on WordPress.org has a 70-99% success rate! The same university study that broke our captcha admitted, ramping up the settings will make it ‘ UNBREAKABLE ‘. While everyone is trying to complicate their CAPTCHAs with images, flash puzzles, and coloring it like a 2 year old with eight-inch markers, we decided to make an image provoke deduction skills. This plugin no longer offers the CAPTCHA programming itself and the core image generation is hosted by Goldsboro Web Development and you are granted FREE API access through via MyGWD Spam Database. This means you are not required to have GD or Freetype installed. This was a decision made to ensure compatibility and to maintain rights to the future development of the platform. By passing the CAPTCHA code to our server, allowing us to process it and display the CAPTCHA in an iFrame on your site, we are able to ensure that 100% of WordPress administrators with up-to-date servers are able to use this stunning CAPTCHA. Also, we are able to grab, monitor, and detect when bots are attacking, find their routines and even stop them from using your precious bandwidth. The service provided by Goldsboro Web Development is free and no API key or code is ever required. At any time you can upgrade to Pro, in which you will be issued a license key. The price we charge for Pro is just enough to cover our basic costs, $1.99/mo (basically you’re buying us a coffee). Your price does not increase due to volume. We didn’t aim to just band-aid the spam issue, we aspire to permanently fix it. To know what I mean, you really have to download the plugin and see for yourself all the features we added to make securing your site and reporting spamers as easy as possible! Here is a teaser, we automatically query the abuse email for a spamming IP and pre-populate an Abuse Report email so all you have to do is hit “Send”. This plugin is revolutionary in the sense that it employs the most simple technique to solve a very complex problem. Deduction. You do it every day, and don’t even realize it. Every time you feel for your keys in your pocket, or swerve to avoid a pot-hole, you have employed deduction to realize something is missing. This is a human only feature that isn’t available to any other animal or computer. By laying lines over a transparent word, a human can easily see the word by deducing from what is missing. A computer simply looks for edges, and all they find is lines! Super Captcha uses cloud processing by working in cooperation with your website to identify, stop, and ban spammers. The best way to flag a spammer is repeated failure of a CAPTCHA, but we understand humans make mistakes too, so we don’t kick off a ban from one or even 5 failures. A spam bot however will visit multiple Super Captcha enabled websites and will try and spam each one. Users that fail the captcha on multiple websites, are indeed banned. When your site helps us pop a spammer, 10 others do the same. Over the past year, we have identified over 11,000,000 spam bots! We have also determined some other interesting data, such as more than 70% of these bots are from China, 10% from Russia, and 10% from the USA. Why are we doing this? I’ve seen some really awesome WordPress communities out there and am a WordPress fan myself, but what gets me cracking on this code in the mornings is the memory of some of these awesome sites closing down because a spam bot was paid to run over this site, blasting their links every where so the page owner could gain 0.0001% in page ranking, leaving the admin with hours of work cleaning up after the bot. Many admins just give up hope and shut the site down – I did once, but I hope this never has to happen again because of a spam bot! This CAPTCHA is pre-programmed for the following forms: WordPress Login WordPress Registration Buddypress Login Buddypress Registration Comment Forms WordPress MU Blog Creation form BuddyPress Blog Creation Form LEGAL: GWD Privacy Policy | GWD Terms of Service | GWD Acceptable Use Policy SERVER REQUIREMENTS: PHP v5.3.0 or greater (Highly recommended) WordPress 4.0 or greater (Previous versions untested) DEVELOPERS Please read our forums on WordPress.org for integration development, hooks, and more. If you need help integrating this plugin into your plugin please ask on our forums.