La Sentinelle antispam vs Spam Filter For Elementor Form

Feel safe knowing that your website is safe from spam. La Sentinelle will guard your WordPress website against spam in a simple and effective way. It has antispam filters for comment forms and registration forms and can be extended to support plugins. The default settings should catch most spambots, and there is a settingspage to set it up according to your wishes. Current features include: 3 antispam features; Honeypot, Nonce, Form Timeout. These 3 spamfilters depend on JavaScript on the frontend. 1 antispam feature; Stop Forum Spam. Settingspage to set things up according to your wishes. Transparent to the visitor, no nagging with Captcha’s or other annoying things. By default no use of third-party services and no tracking of visitors. Lightweight and simple code. Logging for WordPress Comments and which spamfilter marked it as spam. Logging for Custom forms and which spamfilter marked it as spam. Statistics for every form how many spam submissions were blocked. WordPress forms that are protected: WordPress Comments form. WordPress Login form. WordPress Register form. WordPress Lost Password form. Form Plugins that are protected: Caldera Forms. Clean Login (Login form). Contact Form 7. Easy Digital Downloads (Login form, Register form). Everest Forms. Formidable Form Builder. Forminator. Newsletter Optin Box plugin (noptin) (standalone forms). Ultimate Member (Login form, Register form and Lost Password form). WooCommerce (Login form, Lost Password form). WPForms Lite. WP Job Manager plugin (submit job form when registering is enabled). Support If you have a problem or a feature request, please post it on the plugin’s support forum on wordpress.org. I will do my best to respond as soon as possible. If you send me an email, I will not reply. Please use the support forum. Translations Translations can be added very easily through GlotPress. You can start translating strings there for your locale. They need to be validated though, so if there’s no validator yet, and you want to apply for being validator (PTE), please post it on the support forum. I will make a request on make/polyglots to have you added as validator for this plugin/locale. How to choose an antispam plugin When you look through the WordPress Plugin Repository you will see more than a hundred antispam plugins. Which one is the best one? Short answer, there is no “best one”. No spamfilter and no method for spamfiltering is perfect. Slightly longer answer, you could try about twenty and choose the one that fits your needs best. But there is also a really long answer. There are different methods that can be used against spam, and every method has its drawbacks. In my opinion, having a low number of false positives is more important than perfectly marking all spam, you don’t want to miss out on important people or information. Nagging the user in some way has a similar effect, the user might not even want to bother with that and just walk away. Third party services: Services like Akismet, OOPSpam, Stop Forum Spam and also reCAPTCHA offer third party services to check for spam. This can be very effective, but you are giving user submitted data away to these third parties and are also giving your users up for tracking them. Captcha’s, reCAPTCHA and Quizz Questions: You are annoying your users and probably sending some of them away. This especially counts for reCAPTCHA for visitors who have third party cookies disabled. Blacklists: Often running behind the facts. That goes for the way of getting users off that list, and also in getting users on that list. Referer check: check if the Referer header is set correctly. You can never trust it is set correctly. Modern browsers are limiting the use of Referers, though for now that is mostly for third-party domains. JavaScript methods: Spammers often (always?) don’t use JavaScript, they just post the form with spammy data. Drawback for this method is that statistics say that about 1 percent of users has JavaScript disabled. Also, some websites have broken JavaScript, which might make the spamfilter break as well. Activation email for registering users. Users only get activated after clicking a link in an activation email. You still have all the non-activated users in your site however. You could have a bright idea about combining several methods, but then you get the drawbacks of all the methods you use. Another complication of choosing a good plugin is that most antispam plugins don’t tell you what methods they use. The documentation doesn’t tell you, and looking at the source code just leaves you confused at the chaos that it often is. My main motivation for writing this plugin is to offer a plugin that does spamfiltering with JavaScript methods in a simple and effective way. The claimed 1 percent of users that has JavaScript disabled will also be tech-savy enough to enable it again for your website. Compatibility This plugin is compatible with ClassicPress. Contributions This plugin is also available in Codeberg.

Tired of spammy SEO pitches, fake marketing offers, and bot submissions flooding your Elementor Pro forms? By filtering only the message field, you can eliminate up to 95% spam submissions. Spam Filter For Elementor Form do that and gives you the control you need to stop them, without relying on external services. This plugin filters the input field of your forms to block submissions containing unwanted words, suspicious URLs, or emails from unauthorized domains. You can block all URLs except those from your domain or specific domains you allow. If someone tries to submit a form with a disallowed link, they’ll see a clear error message asking them to remove it. Here’s the beauty of it: real visitors who want to share something useful will usually say, “I have a link to share, can you contact me so I can send it?” Spam bots, on the other hand, just drop links and hit submit. That’s where this filter stops them. Whether you want to block certain phrases, links, or reject emails from shady domains, this plugin lets you do it easily, right from the WordPress dashboard. Features: Enable or disable filtering for specific or all Elementor Pro forms. Block messages that contain specific words or patterns. Reject any submission containing links—except those from allowed domains. Block or allow email addresses based on domain (whitelist or blocklist mode). Custom error messages shown directly inside the form. No third-party services or APIs—fully local and lightweight. Built exclusively for Elementor Pro forms. Perfect for any site owner who’s fed up with form spam and wants a simple, effective way to stop it. How to Use: Enable Filtering: Go to Elementor → Settings → Contact Form Filter and check the “Enable Spam Filter” option. Target the Right Form: Enter the name of the form you want to filter in the “Form Name” setting. This must match the “Form Name” from your Elementor Pro form settings. Set Blocked Words: Add a list of blocked words (one per line). Any form submission containing these words will be rejected. Filter URLs: Only allow URLs from specific domains. Other links will trigger a validation error. Control Email Domains: Enable email filtering and choose between whitelist or blocklist mode. Add domains or full email addresses to control who can submit the form. Enjoying the Plugin? If you find Spam Filter For Elementor Form helpful, please consider leaving a review on WordPress.org. Your feedback helps us improve and reach more users. Other useful and absolutely free plugins from WizBee IT Easy Duplicate Woo Order: Adds a custom action to duplicate WooCommerce orders easily. Custom Product in Woo Order: Add custom one-time items directly to WooCommerce orders without adding them to the catalog. Visit our website for more at WizBee IT License This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later license. For more information, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html.