MUTE – Contact Form Spam Blocker Without CAPTCHA vs WP Mailto Links – Protect

SPAM NEVER STOPS. Start with your site. ── MUTE : Good for the world. Still getting spam through your contact form? Tons of junk flooding your inbox every day? Every day, countless WordPress site owners open their inbox to find it buried under fake inquiries, promotional garbage, and suspicious links — all submitted through their own contact form. Real customer messages get lost. You waste time sorting through it all. And no matter how many times you delete them, the spam just keeps getting sent again. MUTE is a spam blocker that puts an end to that — silently, automatically, and without making your real visitors jump through any hoops. The Problem You’re Probably Dealing With You’re not alone. These are the situations we hear about every day: You run a restaurant. Your contact form was meant for customer inquiries — but every time you open it, it’s full of scam emails and unsolicited sales links. Exhausting before the day even starts. You manage an e-commerce site. Your inquiry form is buried under spam every night. Real customer questions keep getting pushed to the back, and response times are slipping. You run a salon. A message from a new client gets lost among spam emails. By the time you reply, they’ve already moved on. You’re in sales at a small business. Every morning you sift through virus-laden links and shady solicitations just to find the one real lead that came in overnight. Your team has started ignoring the contact form because it’s mostly junk — sales pitches, phishing emails, fraudulent messages. Real customer needs go unanswered. You added CAPTCHA to stop the spam. Customers complained it was frustrating to use, inquiries dropped — and it’s not really helping anyway. The spam kept coming. You’ve tried other anti-spam plugins. Bots still slip through. The junk never stops. People keep trying to sell you SEO services and marketing tools through your contact form. Every morning, your inbox is full of sales pitches instead of real customer messages. Bots (automated programs) are constantly crawling the web, hunting for unprotected contact forms to exploit. Once they find yours, the fake submissions keep getting sent again and again. Standard solutions like CAPTCHA ask your real visitors to prove they’re human — that friction costs you leads. There’s a better way. How MUTE Solves It MUTE works as a silent spam blocker running in the background of your site. It detects bot behavior before a form is ever submitted — no puzzles, no checkboxes, no interruption for real visitors. How it works: A lightweight script loads automatically on every page of your site It monitors form activity using multiple detection layers — honeypot traps, behavioral analysis, and browser checks Bots are identified and blocked before their fake submissions ever reach your inbox Real visitors experience absolutely nothing different — their messages go through normally The result: your inbox contains only real inquiries from real people. What Changes After You Install MUTE The restaurant owner who dreaded opening the contact form can now check it without stress — every message there is a real inquiry. The e-commerce team that was always behind on replies can now respond to real customer questions quickly. Better response times, better service. The salon staff who worried about missing a new client’s message can now reply with confidence — every message that arrives is real. The sales team member who wasted every morning sorting through junk can now get to real leads immediately. More time for actual work. Staff who had lost trust in the contact form now check it every day — because they know what’s there is genuine. Real visitors never encounter a CAPTCHA. Your form stays smooth and easy to use. Your contact form does what it was always meant to do: connect you directly with real customers. Checking it goes from a chore to a natural part of the day. Key Features Silent spam protection — blocks bots automatically, with zero impact on real visitors No CAPTCHA required — no friction, no puzzles, no drop-off in form completions Works with popular form plugins — Contact Form 7, WPForms, Gravity Forms, Elementor Forms, Ninja Forms, Jetpack Forms, and more One-line installation — activate the plugin and it works. No settings to configure Live stats in your WordPress dashboard — see how many spam submissions have been blocked 14-day free trial — no credit card required to get started Requirements A free MUTE account is required. Sign up at mute-it.com — no credit card required for the 14-day free trial. External Services This plugin connects to an external service operated by Ryu-Raku Inc. to provide spam detection and account management features. Your site communicates with this service to enable spam blocking and to display your account status in the WordPress admin panel. No personal visitor data is collected or transmitted. Service URL: https://mute-it.com/en/ Terms of Service: https://mute-it.com/en/legal/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://mute-it.com/en/legal/privacy/

Protect and encode email addresses safely from spambots, spamming and other robots. Easy to use out-of-the-box without any configuration. Features Full page protection for emails Instant results (No confiruation needed) Protects mailto links, plain emails, email input fields, RSS feeds and much more Autmoatic protection technique detection (Our plugin chooses automatically the best protection technique for each email) Exclude posts and pages from protection Automatically convert plain emails to mailto-links Automatically convert plain emails to png images Supports rot13 encoing, escape encoding, CSS directions, entity encoding and much more Deactivate CSS directions manually for backwards compatibility Shortcode support: [wpml_mailto] Template tag support: wpml_mailto() and wpml_filter() The plugin combines the best email protection methods (CSS, PHP and JavaScript techniques). Free Website Check We offer you a free tool to test if your website contains unprotected emails. You can use our website checker by clicking here Easy to use The plugin works out-of-the-box to protect your email addresses. After activating the plugin, all options are already set for protecting your emails and mailto links. Documentation The plugin works out-of-the-box to protect your email addresses. All settings are default set to protect your email addresses automatically with the best method available. If you want to manually create protected mailto links, just use the shortcode ([wpml_mailto]) within your posts or use the template tags (wpml_mailto() or wpml_filter()) in your theme files. Shortcode `[wpml_mailto email=”…”]…[/wpml_mailto]` Create a protected mailto link in your posts: [wpml_mailto email=”[email protected]”]My Email[/wpml_mailto] It’s also possible to add attributes to the mailto link, like a target: [wpml_mailto email=”[email protected]” target=”_blank”]My Email[/wpml_mailto] Shortcode `[wpmt_protect]…[/wpmt_protect]` Protect content using our plugin that is not encodedby default (E.g. some ajax loaded values): [wpmt_protect]YOUR CONTENT YOU WANT TO CHECK FOR EMAILS[/wpmt_protect] It’s also possible to customize the encoding type using “protect_using”. Possible values: char_encode, strong_method, without_javascript, with_javascript: [wpmt_protect protect_using=”…”]YOUR CONTENT YOU WANT TO CHECK FOR EMAILS[/wpmt_protect] Template tag `wpml_mailto( $email [, $display] [, $attrs] )` Create a protected mailto link in your template like: Template tag `wpml_filter( $content )` Filter given content to protect mailto links, shortcodes and plain emails (according to the settings in admin):